Saddell

Saddell (Gaelic: Saghadal ) is one consisting only of a few houses village in the Scottish unitary authority Argyll and Bute. It is located on the eastern shore of the Kintyre peninsula about ten kilometers north of Campbeltown and 36 miles south of Tarbert. North of the village runs the Bach Saddell Water and pours east in the Kilbrannan Sound. Saddell is connected by the B842 to the road network.

Ragnall, the son of the king Hebrides Somerled founded in 1207 the monastery Saddell. Parts of the medieval Cistercian monastery complex together with the cemetery have been preserved as ruins and can be visited. The plant belongs to the Scottish monument category B. With Saddell Castle, a fortress of the Clan MacDonald, there is also a monument of the highest category A Scottish monument in Saddell. Completed in 1512, the castle was abandoned twice in the course of its history, and finally restored in 1890.

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