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    Fearn Abbey – known as "The Lamp of the North" – has its origins in one of Scotland's oldest pre-Reformation church buildings. Part of the Church of Scotland...
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  • active 1941–1957 Fearn (letter), the third letter of the Ogham alphabet, as named in Irish Fearn Abbey, Ross-shire, Scotland Hill of Fearn, a village in...
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    Dercongal Abbey and Tongland Abbey all in the Borders area, as well as Fearn Abbey in the northern part of the nation. Like most orders they were almost...
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  • roof of Fearn Abbey collapsed during worship service, burying the congregation in debris and killing thirty-six people. Historically, the abbey roof did...
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    hamlet are mostly cottages with walls constructed of boulders and clay. Fearn Abbey was erected in the hamlet in 1238 by Farquhar, first Earl of Ross, and...
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    Dercongal Abbey and Tongland Abbey all in the Borders area, as well as Fearn Abbey in Ross. The monastery, which was founded by Rhys ap Gruffydd in or about...
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    between the A9 trunk road and the smaller hamlet of Fearn to the southeast. The parish church of Fearn Abbey stands a few minutes walk to the south-east of...
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    at Blarliath Farm, Tain. Just outside Hill of Fearn near Tain lies the site of the medieval Fearn Abbey. Tain was a parliamentary burgh, combined with...
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    The Abbot of Fearn was the head of the Premonstratensian monastic community of Fearn Abbey, Easter Ross, Scotland. The Abbey was founded by canons from...
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    Mid Fearn in Ross, moving it a decade later to New Fearn. They brought with them some relics of St Ninian too, which is why to this day Fearn Abbey is...
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