Kilmun
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Kilmun looking east along the Holy Loch shoreline towards Strone. | |
Location within Argyll and Bute | |
OS grid reference | NS 17000 81700 |
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Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | DUNOON, ARGYLL |
Postcode district | PA23 |
Dialling code | 01369 |
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Kilmun (Scottish Gaelic: Cill Mhunna) is a linear settlement on the north shore of the Holy Loch, on the Cowal Peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands. It takes its name from the 7th-century monastic community founded by an Irish monk, St Munn (Fintán of Taghmon). The ruin of a 12th-century church still stands beside the Kilmun Parish Church and Argyll Mausoleum.[1]