Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie South Cairn

  • Near Kilmartin, Argyll

 

Getting here

Nether Largie South Cairn

About 1km south of Kilmartin, on a road off the A816.

Parking available at Lady Glassary Wood.

This site is accessed through working farmland. To keep you and the livestock safe, please follow the Scottish Outdoor Access Code.

National grid reference - NR 828 979

View Nether Largie South Cairn on a Google map

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Opening times

Open year-round.

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Facilities

A grave like hole inlaid with stone slates inside a stone cairn.

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Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie North Cairn
Two low cairns with hills and forest behind it.

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Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie Mid Cairn
A grassy landscape with the remains of a stone wall that could be mistaken for a small quarry

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Kilmartin Glen: Glebe Cairn
Several low standing stones in a circle, surrounded by pebbles.

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Kilmartin Glen: Temple Wood Stone Circle
Detail of a beautiful symbol carved into one of the Kilmartin Sculptured Stones.

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Kilmartin Glen: Kilmartin Stones
Holes surrounded by concentric circles are carved into the rockface

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Kilmartin Glen: Baluachraig Rock Art
A large field of rocks that used to make up a cairn in a forest clearing.

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Kilmartin Glen: Ri Cruin Cairn
A rocky mound in a grassy landscape with a hole on one side, making it look like a turtle.

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Kilmartin Glen: Dunchraigaig Cairn
A grave like hole inlaid with stone slates inside a stone cairn.

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Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie North Cairn
Two low cairns with hills and forest behind it.

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Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie Mid Cairn
A grassy landscape with the remains of a stone wall that could be mistaken for a small quarry

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Kilmartin Glen: Glebe Cairn
Several low standing stones in a circle, surrounded by pebbles.

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Kilmartin Glen: Temple Wood Stone Circle
Holes surrounded by concentric circles are carved into the rockface

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Kilmartin Glen: Baluachraig Rock Art
A large field of rocks that used to make up a cairn in a forest clearing.

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Kilmartin Glen: Ri Cruin Cairn
A rocky mound in a grassy landscape with a hole on one side, making it look like a turtle.

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Kilmartin Glen: Dunchraigaig Cairn
Holes surrounded by concentric circles are carved into the rockface.

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Kilmartin Glen: Ballygowan Rock Art

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