Villages in battle over birth of St Patrick

From: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK) | Date: March 17, 2007 | Copyright information

As The Irish today celebrate their patron saint St Patrick, two villages are laying claim to his birthplace - in Scotland.

For it transpires he wasn't just a broth of a boy as they would say in "the auld sod," he was a Scots broth of a boy.

Banavie near Fort William and Old Kilpatrick in Dunbartonshire both lay claim to be the place where St Patrick first saw the light of day, more than 1,600 years ago.

Banavie's case, which has been laid before Ireland Deputy Prime Min...

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