Whithorn (Taigh Mhàrtainn in Gaelic)'s a former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, about ten miles south of Wigtown. The town was the location of the first recorded Christian church in Scotland, Candida Casa : the 'White [or'Shining'] House', built by Saint Ninian (original form Nynia) about 397. Eighth and twelfth centuries A monastery and diocese of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria was founded on the site in the 8th century. It was the centre of the revived See of Gall… (More on Whithorn)