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| [Cairn continued] | [continued from page 28] of antiquity, which like the Egyptian pyramids, have outlived the names & events they were doubtless designed to commemorate; some think that they have been the work of the Druids; while others, with more probability, believe that this extensive plain must at some distant period have been the scene of a succession of bloody contests between the natives & some invading tribes, & that this monuments were raised by the survivors, to the memory of those fallen in battle. The name of the district, too, of which the valley of Kilmartin is nearly the centre, Viz. Aragaidheal, i.e. the battlefield, or slaughter of the Gael, - seems to favour the latter supposition. New Stat. [Statistical] Account |
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