Loch Awe Quotes

“The Cailleach was the guardian of a clear cool fountain that welled up from the top of Ben Cruachan. She was charged with the duty of covering it with a slab of stone every evening at sundown, and of removing the lid at daybreak. But one evening, being aweary after driving her goats across Connel, she fell asleep by the side of the well. The fountain overflowed, its waters rushed down the mountain side, the roar of the flood as it broke open an outlet through the Pass of Brander - am Branradh - awoke the Cailleach, but her efforts to stem the torrent were fruitless, it flowed into the plain, where man and beast were drowned in the flood. Thus was formed Loch Awe - Loch Odha, The Cailleach was filled with such horror over the result of her neglect that she turned into stone. There she sits, as already related, among the rocky ruins at the Pass, overlooking the Loch as, on the rocks at Cailleach Point on Mull, she gazes seaward.”
― Katherine Whyte Grant, Myth, Tradition and Story from Western Argyll