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Wallace's Cave [Pitroddie]

Kilspindie, Pitroddie, Perthshire.

Amongst the hills overlooking the Carse [of Gowrie] are several places noted in the popular accounts of Sir William Wallace ... Henry the minstrel [Blind Harry] relates that when Scotland was subjugated by Edward, the Elder Wallace fled with his eldest son to the Lennox and that the mother with her 2nd son William 'to the Gowry passed and dwelt in Kilspindy' ... Whilst skulking under the protection of his uncle, Wallace is said to have concealed himself occasionally in a cave within the glen of Pitroddie, near Kilspindy. William Chalmbers visited the glen and the cave (c. 1832). He found the glen wild and lonely with steep fursy slopes (covered in gorse) with a rill trickling at the bottom. In the face of porphyritic rock there is a long slit, probably at one time masked by brushwood. On entering the opening, thee was room both to stand and lie in the interior.

Alternative Names: Wallace's Cave [4]

Notes: The poem of Blind Harry was said to be composed from a history of Wallace compiled by Robert Blair, Wallace's friend and chaplain who resided at Balthayock, a few miles to the west.