Aberfoyle Old Parish Church

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This roofless old kirk on Manse Road was the church of the Rev Robert Kirk, minister of Aberfoyle, who in the 1690s wrote ‘The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies’. His tomb is in the churchyard — and a local legend holds that the fairies carried him off rather than let him rest there. Look too for the iron mortsafes, once laid over graves to deter body-snatchers. The churchyard is open; the church itself is a ruin.

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