Saint Blane

Late (medieval) Scottish texts relate that his mother was Irish and that Saint Cathan was her brother.

As he carried his precious burden up from Port Lughdach, through Glencallum, to the site of his chapel, the " rigwoodie," to which the creels of earth were suspended, from his neck, broke.

The irritated saint replied to the disobliging dame: "An uair a theid thu do an traigh Biodh am muir Ian ann," i.e., Whenever you go to the sea-shore may there be high tide.

An adjoining piece of ground was assigned to females and this custom of separate burial survived till 1661, when it was stopped by an injunction of the Presbytery of Dunoon.

The ruins of his church at Kingarth, Bute, where his remains were buried, are still standing and form an object of great interest to antiquarians; St Blane's Chapel is picturesquely situated about 800 metres from Dunagoil Bay.