Standing Stones

Standing Stones

A visit to the Isle of Mull would not be complete without a trip to the Bronze Age Lochbuie Standing Stone Circle. This is Mull's only Stone Circle but there are many more sets of Standing Stones on the island, some accessible by car but many are hidden deep in the forest and can only be accessed on foot.

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Baliscate Standing Stones

Baliscate Standing Stones

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Baliscate was one of the early settlements before the village of Tobermory was created in 1788 by the British Fisheries Society which bought the estate from the Duke of Argyll and the Standing Stones can be located up the lane behind the Isle of Mull Pottery. READ MORE

Dervaig Cemetery standing stones

Dervaig Cemetery

There are three stones in Dervaig's newer cemetery, aligned approximately NNW-SSE, the most northern of which is now included in the dry stone wall. It is suggested that these stones are not being treated as well as their kin just up the hill at Cnoc Fada! READ MORE

Glengorm Standing Stones

Glengorm Standing Stones

Three vertical stones lying below Glengorm Castle READ MORE

Kilmore Standing Stones

Kilmore

The Kilmore or Cnoc Fada Standing Stones can be found in a clearing in trees at the South end of Cnoc Fada, just 230m North-west of the road from Dervaig to Tobermory. There is a small car park at the top of the hill.    The trees have now been felled, so this image needs replacing    READ MORE

Lochbuie Stone Circle

Lochbuie Stone Circle

This is a beautifully situated and well preserved stone circle located near the shores of Loch Buie and overlooked by Ben Buie. The circle was originally nine granite stones, set in a ring about 12 metres in diameter, with the tallest stone being about two metres high. READ MORE

Maol Mor standing Stones

Maol Mor

The Maol Mor linear setting of four standing stones can be found in a clearing in forestry on the level top of the broad ridge of Maol Mor, and immediately to the South of the isolated rocky summit. READ MORE

Quinish Standing Stone

Quinish

The Quinish stones are a row of four stones only one of which now remains upright. The standing stone is 9'2" high. Close by are 2 fallen stones with an almost concealed fourth pillar. Reports suggest there was a fifth stone, now gone. READ MORE