Slighe Naoimh Cuithbeirt/St Cuthberts Way 

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

Iagan MacNeil

Julie McCrone

Slighe Naoimh Cuithbeirt/St Cuthberts Way : Series 1: Episode 5

Slighe Naoimh Chuithbeirt

Episode 5

Series 1

Slighe Naoimh Cuithbeirt/St Cuthberts Way

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A’ triall bho Weetwood gu Lindisfarne. Exploring from Weetwood to Lindisfarne. 

Iagan MacNèill a’leantail Slighe Naoimh Chuithbeirt a Monadh Weetwood gu Lindisfarne. Iagan MacNeil explores the St Cuthbert’s Way, from Weetwood Moor to Lindisfarne.  


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, chì Iagan comharran cupa-is- cearcall air creagan Monadh Weetwood, is cluinnidh e dè dh’fhàg Drochaid Weetwood na pàirt de Thasgadh Eco Flodden. Tadhlaidh e air Uamh Chuithbeirt, far an do chùm na manaich a chorp sàbhailte bho na Lochlannaich. 

Coisichidh e aig muir-tràghad air Di h-Aoine a’Cheusaidh a-null gu eilean naomh Lindisfarne cuide ri sgioba on bhuidheann taisdealachd Northern Cross. 

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 visits some cup-and-ring marks on Weetwood Moor, and finds out why Weetwood Bridge is part of the Flodden Eco Museum. He visits St Cuthbert’s Cave where his body was kept safe from the Vikings, and walks across the tidal sands to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne on Good Friday with pilgrims from the Northern Cross.

In Gaelic with English subtitles.


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