The Glebe Cairn

Nearest town:
Lochgilphead (11km SSE)
OS reference:
NR833989
OS sheet:
55
Latitude:
56° 8' 0.35 N
Longitude:
5° 29' 15.82 W

Images

Image of The Glebe Cairn (Cairn) by drewbhoy

Behind the museum, closed Easter 2023, should be open Summer 2023.

Image credit: drew/AMJ
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Apr 17, 2023
Image of The Glebe Cairn (Cairn) by drewbhoy

It’s impressive now, the footprint suggests it must have been huge.

Image credit: drew/AMJ
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Apr 17, 2023
Image of The Glebe Cairn (Cairn) by drewbhoy

It’s been a long time since my last visit here, 30 years perhaps. Been past a few times since, this time I was driving :-)

Image credit: drew/AMJ
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Apr 17, 2023
Image of The Glebe Cairn (Cairn) by winterjc

The Glebe Cairn on the valley floor, taken from above, up on the museum balcony.

Image credit: Norie
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winterjc Dec 6, 2001

Articles

The Glebe Cairn

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jun 16, 2023

We parked in front of Kilmartin Parish Church and walked past the soon to be opened visitor centre to the track just beyond which leads straight to the Glebe and its sheep bodyguards.

It has been a long time since my last visit and its good to see the local greenkeepers keep the grass short. At 35m in width and 4m tall it is the most northern cairn of the Kilmartin Prehistoric walk.

On we go.

Visited 04/04/2023.

The Glebe Cairn

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CARL Aug 6, 2015

As luck would have it I ‘had’ to pass the Glebe cairn to get back to the B+B – honest!

On my last visit I settled for a view from the museum cafe due to the rain. But, as we all know, that isn’t the same as a proper visit. It was getting dark and I didn’t have long.

I walked over the top of the cairn – not sure if this is the ‘done thing’ – but it seemed the natural thing to do. Just me, the sheep and a large pile of grey stones. I crossed the field in the gloom and headed up the hill to the B+B. And back to reality............

The Glebe Cairn

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CARL Jun 8, 2010

The perfect site to ‘visit’ in the rain. I sat in the visitor’s centre with a hot cup of tea and a cake and looked at the site through the conservatory windows – this is the life!!

The Glebe Cairn

IronMan
IronMan Oct 25, 2002

This site is definitely worth seeing! Okay, like landells says, it is a pile of old stones, at the end of the day – but seen up close and in context with the other sites in this group it completes the picture. This is more like the other sites would have looked in their final stages of development, after all. The cairn looked wonderful in the frost.

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