Strath Fillan Priory was a small Augustinian Priory based at Strath Fillan in Argyll (now in the Stirling council area). It seems to have been founded in 1318 by Robert I, King of Scots, and given to the canons of Inchaffray Abbey in order to properly celebrate St Fillan, a saint popular with the 14th century kings of Scotland. It had royal patronage after the Scottish Reformation.
By 1607 it was a Campbell possession, when it was incorporated into the secular lordship of Archibald (Gilleasbaig) Campbell of Glencarradale.
Priors The Prior of Strath Fillan was the head of the Augustinian monastic community. The priors are badly documented and few are known.
List of known priors John de Mortimer, x 1414 Celestine (Cellach) "MacLaureus", 1414–1428 Robert Beaton, 1428–1430 John Murray, fl. 1498 John Gray, fl. 1543 Hugh Curry, 1547–1551 John Paterson, 1551
List of known commendators Thomas Malvil, 1556 Patrick Murray, 1556 John MacCorcadill, 1569–1583 x 1584 Donald McVicar/MacPherson, 1583–1585 x 1607
Footnotes
References Cowan, Ian B. & Easson, David E., Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland With an Appendix on the Houses in the Isle of Man, Second Edition, (London, 1976), p. 98 Watt, D.E.R. & Shead, N.F. (eds.), The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from the 12th to the 16th Centuries, The Scottish Records Society, New Series, Volume 24, (Edinburgh, 2001), pp. 207–8