Old photograph of Gribun Cliffs on the coast of Isle of Mull, Scotland. Rock of the Couple is one of the local names for a huge boulder which lies beside the road as it passes close to the Gribun cliffs on the Ross of Mull. The story goes how in or around the year 1700 a young man by the name of John came across to Mull from the nearby isle of Erraid to take up the job of shepherd at Gribun and to marry the girl to whom he was engaged, Rona. Now a great storm was blowing on the day of their wedding but this didn't stop people celebrating well into the night whereafter the young couple took themselves off to their nearby cottage, hard under the cliffs. Now the storm continued to rage and succeeded in dislodging a great rock which came crashing down the cliffs to land squarely a-top their cottage, flattening the house and killing the newly-wed couple on their wedding night. It is said their bodies were never recovered from the wreckage of the ruined cottage; the ravaged walls of which are still visible around the great bulk of the rock and flowers still bloom in the tiny garden in memory of the tragic couple.
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