Kilmahog
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Kilmahog (Gaelic: Cille MoChùig = Cell of St. Chug [1]) is a hamlet situated half a mile to the west of Callander, Scotland, at the junction of the Trossachs and Lochearnhead roads.
Kilmahog used to be the site of St. Chug's chapel, after which it is named. All that remains of the chapel now is a small burial ground with stones dating back to the late 1600's [2]
The village today consists of a few houses and two Woollen Mill retail facilities (the Trossachs Woollen Mill and the Kilmahog Woollen Mill [3]), with farm land to the north and forestry to the south. There is a local pub, near the site of the old chapel, called The Lade Inn, and the Scottish Real Ale shop, aiming to stock all bottled Scottish ales. [4]
The "Lade" is a man-made diversion from the river that was used to power the watermills.
The former Callander and Oban Railway line passed through Kilmahog; this is now part of the National Cycle Network (route 7) [5] and the Rob Roy Way [6]. The village sits at the Northern point of a loop known as the Trossachs Bird of Prey Trail [7]
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- Samson's Putting Stone sits precariously on Bochastle hill. Local tradition has it that this stone came to be here as a result of a putting competition between a family of giants. The winner of the competition was Samson who lived on Ben Ledi. A modern interpretation is that the stone was carried by glaciers from the Glen Dochart region and left here when the ice retreated. [8]
