The Abbey Craig is the hill upon which the Wallace Monument stands, at Causewayhead, just to the north of Stirling. The Wallace Monument Wallaces sword The Wallace National Monument was opened in 1869, in memory of William Wallace, the 13th century Scottish folk hero. ... Stirling (Sruighlea in Gaelic) is a city in Central Scotland, in the district of Stirling. ...
The Abbey Craig is part of a complex quartz-dolerite intrusion or sill within carboniferous strata at the western edge of the coal field known as the Stirling Sill. The quartz-dolerite being much harder than the surrounding coal maesures has been exposed due to erosion, including by glaciation. In geology, a sill is a tabular mass of igneous rock that has been intruded laterally between layers of older rock. ... The Carboniferous is a major division of the geologic timescale that extends from the end of the Devonian period, about 359. ... The Stirling Sill is the outcropping of a large quartz-dolerite intrusion or sill similar to those which underly a large part of Central Scotland, and may be contiguous at great depth. ...
Craig, or crag, is simply a steep rock or hill. The Abbey is Cambuskenneth Abbey, on the north bank of the River Forth, about 1km distant. The campanile at Cambuskenneth Abbey Cambuskenneth Abbey is a ruined Augustinian monastery located on an area of land enclosed by a meander of the River Forth near Stirling in Scotland. ... The River Forth meanders over fertile farmlands near Stirling The River Forth, 47 km (29 miles) long, is the major river draining the eastern part of the central belt of Scotland. ...
Situated a mile south of AbbeyCraig and the Wallace Monument, Cambuskenneth may have been named after Kennth McAlpin who defeated the Picts at the battle of Logie in the ninth century.
The remains of Cambuskenneth Abbey lie between the Castle and the AbbeyCraig, on a fertile carse within a bend of the river Forth.
Originally called the Abbey of St. Mary, the Augustinian house was founded by King David I in 1147, was visited by King Edward 1 of Englanf in 1303-4 during one of his numerous invasions of Scotland and was closely involved with the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.
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