More Information Great Glen Identification Guide Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh Iùl Aithneachaidh a’ Ghlinne Mhòir

Gaelic Place Names – how many can you spot? Gaelic Pronunciation English buidhe boo-ye yellow dubh dooh black gorm gorrom blue inbhir in-veer confluence baile balla village drochaid dro-khetch bridge ach akh field allt alt burn/stream beag bek small mòr morr big beinn ben hill/peak druim dryme ridge geàrr gerr short coire corrie corrie/hollow on hill ceann kee-ann head/headland What to see leitir leech-yer slope/side of hill on the Ways Useful Websites Am Baile www.ambaile.org.uk Na chì sibh Environment Record her.highland.gov.uk air na Gaelic Placenames of www.ainmean-aite.org Slighean Contact the Rangers Ranger Office, Auchterawe, Ft Augustus PH32 4BT [email protected] 01320 366633

www.outdoorhighlands.co.uk/greatglenway Fort William - Gairlochy Drumnadrochit - Inverness

An Gearasdan – Geàrr-Lochaidh 1 Druim na Drochaid – Inbhir Nis 6 1 6

Old Fort (1645) NN104742 Abriachan illicit whisky still NH558339

Built by General Monk to control unruly clan (Reconstructed). Many such stills hidden in chiefs. Gaelic name for Fort William (see Highland hills. Still owners invented stories about above) means ‘garrison’. Demolished to make ‘wolves’ to keep people away. Illicit stills used way for railway line. Start of GGW. juniper wood as produced less smoke.

th NN121755 Inverlochy Castle (1280) NN590407 Old Drovers’ Road (18-19 C) Walls originally 9ft thick and 30ft high with round Part of network of routes used to herd towers. One of Scotland’s earliest stone castles. livestock from Highlands/Islands south in During renovation a male human skeleton found Autumn. 10 - 12miles a day. Largest convoy walled up. included 600 sheep, 200 cattle, 50 horses.

Alcan Hydroelectric (1929) NN136748 Craig Dunain Asylum (1864) NH636438 Water taken from Loch Treig along 24km of Pioneering place for treatment of mentally steel piping (4.5m in diameter). Powers a ill. Previous treatments included dragging the smelter producing 40,000 tonnes of ill behind boats, throwing them into pits and aluminium a year. burying black olives at sites of medical seizure. Closed in 1999.

NN162826 Moy Bridge (1822) NH629441 Leachkin Cairn (2-4000 BC)

When constructed, the cut one Neolithic community burial place built in farmer’s land in half. A private bridge was built Orkney tradition. Roughly 70ft in diameter. for the farmer. Even now, the only people Only stones of inner chamber survive. allowed to use it are the farmer and the Chamber not yet excavated. postman.

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Invermoriston - Drumnadrochit Gairlochy – Laggan

Inbhir Moireastan – Druim na Drochaid 5 Geàrr-Lochaidh – An Lagan 2

Stone Cave (1800s) NH436168 House (1660) NN174879

Cave built by gamekeeper during Victorian Damaged and rebuilt repeatedly. Last house to times to provide rest stop for a washerwoman use pit/gallows to punish cattle raiders. walking from Alltsigh to Invermoriston and Commando training centre in WW2. Home of back to do washing from the estate house. 26th Chief of Clan Cameron.

NH502217 Foyers Hydro-electric NN182848 Old Ballachulish Ferry (1974)

Pump storage system. When spare power When bridge at Ballachulish built, ferry used exists, water pumped back up hill and is as a transport barge for the canal works. released when more power needed. Also When works were finished, ferry was left on visible are old smelting works and fish farm. shores of .

Achnacarry/Clunes Forest NN176844 Meall Fuar-Mhonaidh (699m) NH457222 Planted by the Cameron clan in Victorian Is classed as a ‘Graham’, i.e. over 610m. times to show wealth. Huge variety of non- Major landmark along Glen. Gaelic meaning is native and exotic trees, including “cold lump of mountain”. Wellingtonia redwoods.

NH494273 Divach Falls (30m drop) NN252932 Glas-Dhoire Ruin Slightly off GGW route. Among highest falls in Slightly off GGW route. Gaelic meaning is Highlands. Early tourists travelled to area by ‘grey/green grove’. Ruin of crofthouse boat to see falls. Have inspired artists and inhabited until 1940s. Rowan trees around authors, including John Phillips. house planted for protection.

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Laggan – Fort Augustus Fort Augustus – Invermoriston

An Lagan – Cille Chuimein 3 Cille Chuimein – Inbhir Moireastan 4

Wade’s Military Roads (1725) NN385906 Inchnacardoch Forest NH379100 General Wade sent by King George I to assess “Acquisition No 1”. This was one of first ever Scotland’s infrastructure. Built areas acquired by the Forestry Commission in

250miles/400km of road & approx 40 bridges. 1919. All original trees have been harvested, Linked garrisons all over Highland. but area still used to provide high quality seeds for planting elsewhere in Scotland.

NN304991 Well of Seven Heads (1663) NH385102 Cherry Island (Iron Age) Opposite side of Loch Oich. 7 men from rival Loch Ness’s only island. Originally Eilean clan were murdered in a revenge killing & the Muireach - renamed by Oliver Cromwell due heads were washed in well before being to shape. Covered in tall pines. Identified as presented to Glengarry clan chief. 7 headless a crannog in 1908 by monk from abbey. corpses later found nearby.

th Invergarry Castle (16-18 C) NH314006 “Horse-shoe Crag” NH419119 Seat of MacDonnells. Legend says stones used Far side of Loch Ness. Horseshoe-shaped scree to build it were passed hand to hand for 7 slope. Legend says people tried to capture miles from local hill Ben Tee. Main building Nessie by putting bottle of whisky on hill as a had 5 stories, the tower had 6. trap. She climbed up, took whisky and escaped into loch, hence the bare trail of rock.

NH327018 Crannog Eilean Drynachan NH420165 River Moriston Folly 20 foot in diameter, with navigation marker. A folly is usually a building for no purpose Crannogs are ancient artificial loch structures other than decoration. This one however used for variety of purposes (home, refuge, probably built to view the falls. “Moriston” fishing/hunting station). comes from the Gaelic meaning ‘big water’.

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