It must have been about 40 years ago when we first visited St Drostan’s well at Aberdour beach. Some friends of our lived in Rosehearty at that time.  They were having problems with their baby who was always being sick.  The locals told them they should be using water from St Drostan’s well.  It would be better for the baby than the water that came from the taps.  So off we all went to Aberdour beach so that they could  fill up their big bottle with the saint’s water.

We made a trip yesterday back to Aberlour beach in the campervan.  Poppy explored the well before she enjoyed a scamper along the beach with Lily, not to mention exploring the exciting sea cave.
The inscription on the well is difficult to read now:  “St Drostan’s Well 1884 Erected by J Findlater LLD, a native of Aberdour” and it certainly needs a tidy up.  Mary suggested that they need to create a “Friends of St Drostan’s Well” group to look after it.
It is said that St Drostan used the water of this spring to baptise local people and was famed for his miracle cures. St Drostan lived in the early 7th Century.  He was a follower of St Columba and was the founder of the Abbey of Deer.  In later life he withdrew and lived as a hermit in Glenesk in Angus (not far from where I was born).  He died at Glenesk and his remains were taken to Aberdour where they were placed in a stone coffin and long believed to work wondrous cures.  I wonder if our friend’s baby was one of them?