Keep left for Blackgannoch Conventicles
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Keep left for Blackgannoch Conventicles
Image: © M J Richardson Taken: 21 May 2009
Originally, apart from finding that a conventicle is a secret or unauthorised religious meeting, linked to the Covenantors in the 17th Century, I could find little about the Blackgannoch Conventicles. Thanks to Ian Broadfoot, in Australia, I now know that the story of the Conventicles is in a book, available on-line, "Traditions of the Convenantors" - Chapter 3 http://www.archive.org/stream/MN5131ucmf_3#page/n3/mode/2up, where the spelling is Blagannach. For more background, see also article "The Killing Times" http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/The-Killing-Times
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Image Location
Latitude
55.436848
Longitude
-3.96997