Crianlarich.

Crianlarich comes from the Gaelic name for a 'low pass' and is the village closest to the half-way point on the West Highland Way. In the 1750s two military roads were built to meet at the town and today’s main roads follow their layout.

Three miles to the west of the village, Robert the Bruce in 1318, promoted the church of St. Fillan to the status of a Priory. He did this in gratitude for the victory at Bannockburn in 1314 and probably because the monks had helped Bruce after an earlier battle at Dalrigh. St Fillan ( Fillan means 'little wolf' ), was a follower of St. Columba, who founded the abbey in Iona. Fillan brought Christianity to the Picts and Celts who lived in the central lowlands and the southern highlands of Scotland. His mother was St Kentigerna who founded a religious community on one of Loch Lomond's islands called Inchcailloch, where St. Fillan died in 734. Today there are only scant ruins of Fillan's church to be seen.

Crianlarich is a small tourist village used as a stopover by walkers on the WHW, and as a central point by those wanting to climb the rugged mountains surrounding the village.

Accommodation info for Crianlarich is on the | Over-night | page.

If this interests you, a related page is at | WHW Towns |


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