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Nearby .... Breadalbane Fortingall Invervar Kenmore Logierait Feedback Credits Maps .... For a wider look at the area, load our Perthshire Map and choose your destination! Links .... Scottish Tourist Board Scottish Towns	Dull and the surrounding area has been inhabited for at least 5000 years. Many remnants - stone circles, standing stones end hill forts - testify to inhabitants from around 3000 BC. Unfortunately much stonework has been removed to provide for stone dykes and buildings of modern usage. The pre-Christian era came to an end with the arrival of the Romans, who only held the southern parts in temporary occupation. Dull is particularly connected with St Adamnan, also called Eonan. Irish born, he joined the Iona religious community and is famed for his biography of St. Columba. He set up his religious cell in Glen Lyon using Dull (or Tulli, as it was then known) as a place of solitude and retreat. Adamnan died around 704 AD, having been attributed with the halting of the plague rife in the area at the time. Summoning God's help, he cast the evil spirits of the disease onto a rock on which he had placed his foot. The rock is by the road side at Camustrachan in Glen Lyon. Two stone crosses were erected in gratitude for the miracle. Dull church, renovated in 1840, is still in use. Behind the church there is a holy well, reputedly the site of miraculous cures. It is called "Tobar Eouan' or Well of Adomnan. The ancient monastic site at Dull (exact site is disputed) signalled the end of the Celtic influence in this church. In the 12th Century it was converted to a Tironensian Priory by the Crown (David I, 1124-1153). The Tironension order was Benedictine in style, founded in France by Bernard, a monk from Poitiers. The famous Cistercian Bernard of Clairvaux issued file rule to sanction and legitimise the new order. Protectors of the Knights Templar, developed out of the changing Catholic church during the times of the Crusades. The Knights Templar had a strong attachment to the Royal House of Bruce, loyalties which passed to the House of Stuart, and fought with great skill and courage in many of our famous battles. The Scots Knights Templar aims are: To carry out works of welfare and charity and to protect the national culture of Scotland To perpetuate the chivalric traditions of knighthood To be patron of historical, 'heraldic and genealogical studies' concerning the order To support the preservation and restoration of historic buildings and places
	Last updated June 2001
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