Cullen
Cullen (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Cuilinn).
"Atween Coedlich and the sea, There lies Kings' sons three."
Between the rocks and the sea, there lies kings sons three. The rocks referred to are the three huge protruding parts of the Cullen Bays Quartzite formed some 541+ million years ago. One story tells that three kings were buried here: a Scots, a Danish and a Norwegian. History tells of one Indulf, king of Alba dying near here during the battle of the Bauds 962 AD.
When Ptolemy (100-170 AD) wrote his ‘Geographia’, he provided coordinates of the geographic features of more than 8,000 places including a mention of River Celnius in the North East of Scotland, which has been notably identified as the Cullen Burn.
Robert the Bruce was King of Scots from 1306 to his death in 1329 and one of Scotlands most famous warriors who lead Scotland into their First War of Scottish Independence (1296-1328). Robert the Bruce founded the church in Cullen and also burried his wife here.
