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It is a good topic for discussion. Some places seem score more on the likelihood scale and those places often seem to have a place of early (and then later) Christian worship superimposed on them. Am thinking particularly of Kilmartin with all its cairns, one dating back to the Neolithic; all the standing stones and of course rock art. The Ormaig rock carving are on a hillside overlooking Loch Craignish and seem to sign the way towards Kilmartin - as you draw near to Kilmartin two large standing stones appear, only really visible from that direction - way-markers perhaps. Kilmartin now has a church with some very early christian carved grave stones in its small cemetery but it is the prehistoric cairn cemetery which dominates the landscape. I cannot believe this was not a place of worship pre-Christian. Opposite Ormaig on the other side of Loch Crainish are the remains of a very early Christian chapel and others all around the area. The Irish traveled there for some reason and it is certain people traveled between Ireland and the west coast of Scotland prior to Christianity - the religion may have changed but the people were the same.
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