Qualla: Glenmoriston

Glenmoriston: Introduction

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Kendall K. Down, Public domain. Quarter of a mile east of Torgoyle Bridge, just off the verge of the A887, two bare patches of earth lie behind a stone cairn. They are roughly the size and shape of footprints. Local tradition says they are the footprints of Finlay Munro, the Highland Evangelist, who preached in Glenmoriston in 1827. When Catholic hecklers from neighbouring Glengarry called him a cheat and a liar, Munro is supposed to have closed his Bible and declared that the ground beneath him would bear witness to the truth until the Day of Judgement. The marks have not grown over since. Glenmoriston is full of small stories like that, and a few large ones.

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Image: Kendall K. Down | Public domain

Glenmoriston: The River of Waterfalls

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Pic:Sourav Niyogi, (WT-en) P.K.Niyogi at English Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Glenmoriston runs west from Loch Ness, at the village of Invermoriston, up into the hills past Loch Cluanie, where it meets Glen Shiel and the road continues toward Skye. The River Moriston dominates the glen, and the Gaelic name is sometimes interpreted as river of the waterfall...

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Glenmoriston: Dragon Haugh and the Boar's Return

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0. Five miles up the glen lies Loch Dundreggan, whose Gaelic name means Dragon Haugh. A hydroelectric dam taps the river here, and on Tuesdays water is released into the river below in a controlled surge that draws kayakers and white-water rafters from across the Highlands. In Novem...

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Glenmoriston: A Cave for the Prince

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Kendall K. Down, CC BY-SA 3.0. After the disaster at Culloden in April 1746, Bonnie Prince Charlie fled west and then south through some of the most difficult country in Scotland, with a price of thirty thousand pounds on his head. In 2016 money, that reward was around 4.2 million pounds or six million US doll...

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Glenmoriston: The Man Who Died for the Prince

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit ronnie leask, CC BY-SA 2.0. Beside the road through Glenmoriston stands a cairn to Roderick Mackenzie, a young merchant from Edinburgh who closely resembled Bonnie Prince Charlie. After Culloden, Mackenzie attached himself to the Prince's flight and, when government troops cornered him in Glenmoriston, deli...

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Glenmoriston: A Small Place That Holds Big History

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0. Saint Irchard, a Celtic missionary, is said to have founded an early church in Glenmoriston at a place where his bell rang of its own accord for the third time. The bell was kept at the site for centuries; after the church was ruined in the 17th century, the bell stayed in the ch...

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Image: John Allan | CC BY-SA 2.0