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Dull
Dull in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Dull is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Dull (Scottish Gaelic: Dul, pronounced [t̪ul̪ˠ]) is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is paired with Boring, Oregon. Bland, New South Wales, Australia, is also a member of the League of Extraordinary Communities established by Boring and Dull in 2013.
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Background
History
|thumb]] The parish church is on the site of an early Christian monastery founded by St Adomnán (Scottish Gaelic: N. Eònan), Abbot of Iona (died 704). Several early Christian cross-slabs dating to the 7th or 8th century have been discovered in and around the parish graveyard. A slab carved with stylised warriors and horsemen in the Pictish style, uncovered during grave-digging in the 19th century, is displayed in the Museum of Scotland, and may have formed part of a wall-relief, or one side of a box-shrine. A massive font of rough workmanship, preserved by the church door, is also a probable relic from the early monastic site. The surrounding district was known as the Appin of Dull, the…
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- Coordinates
- 56.6185, -3.9473
- District
- Perth and Kinross
- Postcode
- PH15 2JQ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens
Sources
- wikidata: Q3250427 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Dull, Perth and Kinross (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Dull?
- Dull is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.6185°, -3.9473°.