Ardchattan and Muckairn

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Ardchattan and Muckairn is a civil parish within Argyll and Bute in Scotland. It lies north of Oban, bordering Loch Etive and includes Glen Ure, Glen Creran, Barcaldine, Benderloch, Connel, Bonawe and Glen Etive.{{cite web| url=http://www.ardchattan.org.uk/| title=Ardchattan – A study of the social, natural and physical history| author=Jill Bowis, Ardchattan Parish Archive| access-date=4 August 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090625203419/http://benderloch.org.uk/| archive-date= 25 June 2009 | url-status= live}} At the 2001 census, Ardchattan and Muckairn had a population of 2,443, between them.{{cite web|title=Usual Resident Population: Ardchattan and Muckairn|url=http://www.scrol.gov.uk/scrol/analyser/analyser?topicId=1&tableId=&tableName=Usual+resident+population&selectedTopicId=&aggregated=false&subject=&tableNumber=&selectedLevelId=&postcode=&areaText=&RADIOLAYER=&actionName=view-results&clearAreas=&stateData1=&stateData2=&stateData3=&stateData4=&debug=&tempData1=&tempData2=&tempData3=&tempData4=&levelId=4&areaId=036|work=Scotland's Census Results OnLine|publisher=General Register Office for Scotland|access-date=31 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404163000/http://www.scrol.gov.uk/scrol/analyser/analyser?topicId=1&tableId=&tableName=Usual+resident+population&selectedTopicId=&aggregated=false&subject=&tableNumber=&selectedLevelId=&postcode=&areaText=&RADIOLAYER=&actionName=view-results&clearAreas=&stateData1=&stateData2=&stateData3=&stateData4=&debug=&tempData1=&tempData2=&tempData3=&tempData4=&levelId=4&areaId=036|archive-date=4 April 2012|url-status=dead}} Its name derives from the 6th-century Irish monk Saint Cathan, combined with the Goidelic element ard-, or "heights".{{cite book |title= Influence of the Pre-Reformation Church on Scottish Place-names|last= Mackinlay|first=James Murray |year= 1904|publisher= W. Blackwood|page= [https://archive.org/details/influencepreref00mackgoog/page/n344 322]|url= https://archive.org/details/influencepreref00mackgoog|access-date=12 January 2010}}

In the past Ardchattan has been co-joined with its neighbouring parish of Muckairn, on the other side of Loch Etive.

Its most famous landmark is Ardchattan Priory, founded as a Valliscaulian priory around the year 1230.

After the second world war the then owner Lieutenant-Colonel Robert (Bobby) Modan Thorne Campbell-Preston{{Cite web |date=1996-06-20 |title=Lt-Col Robert Campbell-Preston |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12038827.lt-col-robert-campbell-preston/ |access-date=2024-06-29 |website=The Herald |language=en}} married the hospital administrator and widow Angela Murray in 1950. Their daughter, Sarah, was born in 1951.{{Citation |last=Moss |first=Michael S. |title=Preston [née Pearson; other married name Murray], Angela Campbell- (1910–1981), businesswoman, landowner, and conservationist |date=2024-06-13 |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-63965 |access-date=2024-06-28 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.63965 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8|url-access=subscription }}

The priory's ruins and surrounding gardens are now open to the public.