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A favourite tourist resort at the eastern end of Loch Earn, and on the River Earn with great fishing and sailing, walking and mountaineering and in the loch is the wooded Neish Island.
To the south is Dunfillan Hill at 2,011ft on top of which is a rock known as St Fillan’s Chair, a site once fortified by the Picts.
The ruined Culdee Chapel stands in the cemetery, and has long been the burial place of the Stewarts of Ardvorlivch House near Lochearnhead. The font from the Chapel is now in use in the Parish Church.
To the north the road along Loch Earn has fine mountain views which include Ben Vorlich rising to 3,224ft and Stuc a’Chroin at 3,169ft
St Fillans - Abbot on Holy Loch who died 777
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- Landmark