Sannox

Nearest town:
Rothesay (19km NNE)
OS reference:
NS016456
OS sheets:
63, 69
Latitude:
55° 39' 47.46 N
Longitude:
5° 9' 16.71 W
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Image of Sannox (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Howburn Digger

Also in Sannox lies this unrecorded/ unlisted boulder with three cups. I asked the owner of the property if she was aware she had a cup marked stone in her wall. She replied that the stones had been dragged in from surrounding fields and she had no idea which field or where it had come from!
Don’t ya just love this place?

15 October 2010

Image credit: Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger Oct 17, 2010
Image of Sannox (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Howburn Digger

Between The Mid Sannox Stone (in the field behind the Golf Club) and the Dundarroch Cottage stone, lies this toppled ten foot by four foot stone. Its just off the road in the trees and is kinda sloping upwards at 45 degrees...

15 October 2010

Image credit: Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger Oct 17, 2010
Image of Sannox (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Howburn Digger

Standing proudly in the autumnal splendour of Dundarragh Cottage’s garden. I don’t know where else to post this picture but it is one of a number of stones in Sannox (either by the roadside or in people’s gardens). Sannox is a wee place so maybe they could all be gathered together under “Sannox”.

15 October 2010

Image credit: Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger Oct 17, 2010

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Sannox

Vicster
Vicster May 22, 2010

I feel that this stone deserves it’s own entry. Yep, it is similar in style and size to the stone at Dundarragh Cottage and they may well be linked (possibly moved from their original position?) but it is still a good 5 mins walk from one to the other!

This stone stands in a field next to the golf club. From the Dundarragh stone, turn right up the hill and past the golf club entrance. The stone is in the next field on the left, by a big, white house.

Another lovely stone......I like to think there is some connection between the 2.

Lots of hares bouncing around in the field and a cheeky red squirrel followed me, popping up every now and then, as I walked along the road! Lovely.

Folklore

Sannox
Standing Stone / Menhir
Rhiannon
Rhiannon May 29, 2023

A single Druidical stone is visible in front of the farm house of Sannox, in the middle of the green field. Many remains of a similar kind are still extant in the mosses and glens of the island. Of late much has been done to solve the enigma of those monoliths.

A pretty tradition has been handed down of a daughter of Fingal going out to meet her lover in the woods, having disguised herself by dressing in man’s clothes; her lover, deceived by the circumstance, espied her amid the thick wooding, and, supposing her a foe, took his bow and drew an arrow from his quiver, and unfortunately killed his love. On the ground where she fell, he raised the tall monolith to commemorate the sad event, and had a second placed for himself not far from it – committing self-immolation. Her remains were buried entire, but his received all a chieftain’s honours and druidical rites, placed in an urn, inside a stone chest, alongside of his love.

Such is the tradition as handed down. There is still a love of the superstitious and the marvellous amongst the islanders. Yet, strange it is, in the very centre and civilization here are as great attempts to revive that ancient spirit of magic, hence those seances and impositions. There seems little doubt now regarding one use of those stones, that they were raised to mark the last resting place of the ashes of the great. This seems quite established.

In the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, 9th August 1862.

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