St Ninian’s Cave lies on the shores of Glenluce Bay, Dumfries and Galloway. It is traditionally held to be the place to where St Ninian retreated from Whithorn.

It is still a place of pilgrimage today. On our (long) walk down from the car park we overtook a party of schoolchildren (young teenagers) being escorted to the cave. On our way back they were grouped together – complete with guitars – at the site where the path meets the beach. I assume they were preparing to indulge in hymn singing.

St Ninian’s Cave from beach:-

Closer view of cave:-

Information board at cave entrance:-

Cave interior:-

There are carved crosses within the cave and other crosses on the hills and cliffs surrounding it:-

I liked the veining in the rock at this smaller cave nearby:-

Whithorn Priory and Whithorn Parish Church are surrounded by a cemetery in which there are some Commonwealth War Graves.

Staff Serjt W B Arnott, Royal Army Medical Corps, 15/12/1915, aged 32:-

Private J Irvine MM, Labour Corps, 19/2/1920, aged 34:-

Private P Whalley, The King’s Liverpool Regt, 19/10/1918:-

Thomas Drape Clark killed in action near Arras, France, 23/4/1917, aged 36:-

John Norman Brown, 2nd Lieut, Border Regt, lost at sea in the Great War:-

Whithorn Priory was a mediæval Priory in Whithorn, Dumfries and Galloway. The area was once the cradle of Christianity in Scotland but the building is now a ruin.

The bringer of Christianity, St Ninian, died in Whithorn and is thought to have been buried here, the Priory growing up around his shrine.

Remains of Priory from access lane:-

Information board:-

Interior:-

Carved stone in grounds:-

Doorway:-

Detail:-

Exterior ruins:-