Torhouse Stone Circle consists of a ring of nineteen rounded granite boulders overlooking the river Bladnoch, set around three larger boulders. It is one of the best preserved stone-circles in Britain. Its central stones are in an alignment facing Cairnsmore (summer solstice sunrise) and the Fell of Barhullion (winter solstice sunset).
According to an unbroken tradition dating from the earliest times and confirmed in the writings of the Venerable Bede in the 8th century, a holy man named Nynia, born among the British people, introduced the Christian faith into a significant part of the land now known as Scotland long before the coming of Saint Columba.
