Tour Scotland Winter travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music on ancestry, genealogy family history visit and walk around the historic Cathedral in Dunkeld, Highland Perthshire. In 849, relics of Saint Columba were removed from the Island of Iona to protect them from Viking raids. They were brought to Dunkeld by King Kenneth MacAlpin, who appointed a bishop at Dunkeld. Columba became the patron saint of Dunkeld and its monastery. Built in square stone style of predominantly grey sandstone, the cathedral proper was begun in 1260 and completed in 1501. It stands on the site of the former Culdee Monastery of Dunkeld. Relics of Saint Columba, including his bones, were said to have been kept at Dunkeld until the Reformation, at which time they were removed to Ireland. Some believe there are still undiscovered Columban relics buried within the cathedral grounds. In 1689 the Battle of Dunkeld was fought around the cathedral between the Jacobite Highlanders loyal to King James II and VII and a government force supporting William of Orange, with the latter winning the day. Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, known as " the Wolf of Badenoch ", was buried in the cathedral following his death in 1405. During the coronavirus pandemic I have been a volunteer driver.
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