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St Ninian's Cave

Dumfries & Galloway


Around Burrow Head, to the southwest but accessed off the A747 before you enter the Isle of Whithorn, is St Ninian's Cave, where the saint apparently went to pray. You can walk here along the coast from Isle of Whithorn.


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