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One Man’s Dream Have you driven up to Oban along the side of Loch Awe and through the small town? You will have admired the castle in the loch. You may have stopped to visit the secret mountain Hydro system. But have you passed the dark and mysterious Saint Conan’s Kirk on the loch side? It appears gothic from the exterior and very old of years. Walter Campbell was an architect, wood carver and avid collector, who arrived in Lochawe in 1878, with his mother and sister. The building of St Conan’s Kirk started in 1881, with a small church, said to be as a result of his mother finding the journey to the Taynult church too one