Tour Scotland Photograph Mountain Cairn Isle Of Jura

Tour Scotland photograph of a mountain Cairn on the Isle of Jura, Scotland. It is a Scottish tradition to carry a stone up from the bottom of a hill to place on a cairn at its top. In such a fashion, cairns would grow ever larger. An old Scottish Gaelic blessing is Cuiridh mi clach air do chàrn, " I'll put a stone on your cairn ". In Highland folklore it is believed that the Highland Clans, before they fought in a battle, each man would place a stone in a pile. Those who survived the battle returned and removed a stone from the pile. The stones that remained were built into a cairn to honour the dead.



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