St Fillan's Well and Chair on Dun Fholain

The minister's account says the well was visited by sick people especially on 1 May and 1 August, and that seventy people went in May and August 1791. Invalids walked or were carried round it three times sunwise, drank and bathed. It was thought especially good against barrenness. Each patient threw a white stone on the Saint's cairn and left rags of linen or wool as thanks. Someone with a bad back had to sit in the rock chair on the hilltop, lie down and be pulled to the bottom by the legs. A basin at the foot of the hill was used to wash sore eyes three times. Armstrong adds that a public statute of 1579 tried to ban such pilgrimages, and that people still pointed to a stagnant pool on the hilltop as the true well.