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Parish of Merton -- WBeatty -- [page] 39

Dryburgh Abbey -- Dryburgh Abbey -- Continued -- See Sheet 30.15 --

about the year 522, and made apostolic excursions into the North Western part of Scotland, particularly in the districts of Stirling and Dumbarton, where his memory is still to be traced in popular tradition - There is some reason to conjecture that on this spot there had been more anciently a Druidical establishment, because the Gaelic etymology of the name , Darach-bruach, or Darach-brugh or Dryburgh, can be no otherwise interpreted than, the Bank of the sacred grove of Oaks, or the settlement of the Druids, and, we know, that it was usual for the planters of christianity, in Pagan Countries, to choose such sacred haunts for the propagation of the Gospel -

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