Roseanna Cunningham calls for Pilgrim Way from Argyll’s Iona to St Andrew’s

This seems to be a day of links between Argyll and Perthshire. First we had the news of the first scientific identification of a single source for Perthshire’s River Tay – in the Allt Coire Laoigh burn at Ben Lui in north Argyll.

Now we have the SNP’s Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, calling for a PIlgrim Way to be completed during Homecoming Scotland 2009. It would run across Scotland from Argyll’s Isle of Iona in the west, through its parent Isle of Mull, following the footsteps of St Columba through Stirling and Perth to St Andrews in Fife on the east coast.

Ms Cunningham rightly says that the so-called Pilgrim Way, following the path of St Columba’s monks, would attract both religious pilgrims and walking tourists – and showcase Scotland’s countryside. She is looking for support from Ministers and Local Authorities to have the route ready during 2009 as an enduring legacy of the Year of Homecoming in 2009.

It would add to Argyll’s superb network of core paths, bringing the additional mystical connection of Iona and St Columba.