Crossraguel Abbey

United Kingdom / Scotland / Maybole /
 abbey, historic ruins
The site of the abbey may have been an ancient holy place for the name Crossraguel probably derives from ‘the cross of Raighail’. Raighail was a well-known Irish saint, usually identified with St Regulus or St Rule, who was revered at St Andrews, in Fife. There may have been a free-standing prayer cross here in the Dark Ages. It would have been similar to the Barochan Cross, which now stands in Paisley Abbey but formerly stood in the parish of Houston, Renfrewshire.
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Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossraguel_Abbey
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Coordinates:   55°20'19"N   4°43'14"W
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