Slighe Naoimh Cuithbeirt/St Cuthberts Way 

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Iagan MacNeil explores the St Cuthbert’s Way, from Melrose to St Boswells.

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Iagan MacNeil

Julie McCrone

Slighe Naoimh Cuithbeirt/St Cuthberts Way : Series 1: Episode 3

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Slighe Naoimh Cuithbeirt/St Cuthberts Way

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A’ triall bho Monteviot gu Kirk Yetholm. Exploring from Monteviot to Kirk Yetholm.

Iagan MacNèill a’leantail Slighe Naoimh Chuithbeirt a Monteviot gu Kirk Yetholm. Iagan MacNeil explores the St Cuthbert’s Way, from Monteviot to Kirk Yetholm.  

San t-sreath seo tha Iagan MacNèill a’cur eòlas air an dùthaich agus an eachdraidh air Slighe Naoimh Chuithbeirt.

Chaidh an t-slighe taistealach ainmeachadh airson an Naomh Cuithbeart, a bha, san t-seachdamh linn, na mhanach, na aonaran, na fhear-leighis agus na easbuig. Tha i ruith fad trì fichead mìle sa dha eadar Maolros sna Crìochan far an deach e na òige dhan mhanachainn, gu eilean naomh Lindisfarne far cladach Northumbria, far an deach a thiodhlagadh an toiseach. 

Sa phrògram seo thèid Iagan a-null air drochaid chrochte Monteviot, agus cluinnidh e mu Reubhairean nan Crìoch agus an t-Suirghe Bhorb, aig caisteal Cessford. Tadhlaidh e air Morebattle, agus coisichidh e seachad nan cnoc Grubbit Law is Wideopen Hill - an cnoc is àirde air an t-slighe - is iad fo chòmhdach shneachda. Cluinnidh e mun cheangal eadar Kirk Yetholm agus na ceàird-thaisteal ann an Alba.  

Iagan MacNeil finds out about the landscape and history along the St Cuthbert’s Way. The 62-mile-long pilgrims’ route, named for the 7th century hermit, healer and bishop, St Cuthbert, links Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders where Cuthbert began his religious life, with his original burial place on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast. 

Iagan crosses the beautiful Monteviot Suspension Bridge, finds out about the Border Reivers and the Rough Wooing at Cessford Castle. He visits Morebattle, walks through the snowy hills of Grubbit Law and Wideopen Hill, the highest point of the route, and finds out about Kirk Yetholm’s history with the gypsy community in Scotland. 

In Gaelic with English subtitles.

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