Kessog

Saint Kessog was an Irish missionary of the mid-sixth century active in the Lennox area and southern Perthshire.

Using Monks' Island in Loch Lomond as his headquarters, he evangelized the surrounding area until he was martyred, supposedly at Bandry, where a heap of stones was known as St Kessog's Cairn.

Elsewhere in Scotland, the medieval parish churches of Auchterarder and Comrie, both in Perthshire, were dedicated to Kessog, and may have been founded by him or one of his followers.

The Kessock area of Inverness is named after the saint, as is the Kessog oil field in the North Sea.

As late as 1695 his bell, a sacred relic, was listed among the funeral investitures of the Earldom of Perth.