Ronan--Dow Well--Influence on Topography--Ronan's Springs--Pol Ronan and Feill Ronan--Fergus--His Well in Banffshire--Glamis--His Relics--His Wells at Montrose and Wick--Helen--St. Helen's Kirk--Her Springs--Her connection with Britain--Her Wells and Churches in England--Welsh Traditions--St. Abb's Well--Ebba--Aidan--His Wells--Boisil--His Springs--St. Boswell's Fair--Bathan--Abbey St. Bathan's--His Well there--Boniface--His Well and Fair at Rosemarkie--Catherine of Alexandria--Her Legend--Her Wells--Various other Dedications--Lawrence--His Wells--St. Lawrence's Fair--His Church Dedications--Laurencekirk--Margaret--Her connection with Queensferry and Forfar--Her Wells at Edinburgh--Her Cave and Spring at Dunfermline--Wells dedicated to various Characters in Sacred Story. In any notice of early saints Ronan must not be forgotten, especially when we remember that perhaps no spring, thanks to Sir Walter Scott, is so familiar to the general reader as St. Ronan's Well. It has been commonly identified with the mineral well at Innerleithen, in Peeblesshire for long held in much favour in cases of eye and skin complaints, and also for the cure of dyspepsia. The spring is situated a short distance above the town on the skirt of Lee Pen. The writer of the article on Innerleithen parish in the "New Statistical Account of Scotland" says that this spring "was formerly called the 'Dow-well' from the circumstance that, long before the healing virtues of the water were discovered, pigeons from the neighbouring country resorted to it." The name, however, is more probably derived from the Gaelic dhu or dubh, signifying black. This is all the more likely when we remember that the ground around was wet and miry before the spring was put into order, and the present pump-room built, in 1826. We find marks of Ronan in Scottish topography. In Dumbartonshire is Kilmaronock, meaning, literally, the Church of my little Ronan; Kilmaronog near Loch Etive has the same signification. Dr. Skene refers to these two dedications, and adds, "Ronan appears to have carried his mission to the Isles. He has left his trace in Iona, where one of the harbours is Port Ronan. The church, afterwards the parish church, was dedicated to him, and is called Teampull Ronaig, and its burying-ground, Cladh Ronan. Then we find him at Rona, in the Sound of Skye, and another Rona, off the coast of Lewis; and, finally, his death is recorded in 737 as Ronan, abbot of Cinngaradh or Kingarth, in Bute." Ronan is patron of various springs. There is one sacred to him near Kilmaronock, another in the Aberdeenshire parish of Strathdon, and another, already referred to, beside Teampull Mòr, in the Butt of Lewis. The parish of Strowan, now joined to that of Monzievaird, has a well to the saint. This was to be expected, since the name of the parish is merely an altered form of St. Rowan or Ronan. About a hundred