Qualla: Glensanda https://qualla.com/glensanda en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/1/glensanda-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Glensanda https://qualla.com/glensanda Glensanda: Introduction https://qualla.com/glensanda/ Photo credit Andy MacArthur, CC BY-SA 2.0. There is no road to Glensanda. No rail line, no marked footpath - just granite mountain, peat bog, heather, and the cold water of Loch Linnhe. To reach this remote Highland estate you take a boat, the same way Vikings did when they named the place Glen of the Sandy River sometime before the 8th century. What changed in 1986 was that the boats stopped being small. They are now ocean-going bulk carriers, loading 6,000 tons of crushed granite an hour at a deep-water pier, bound for Houston, Hamburg, Świnoujście. The mountain above the pier is being dismantled, one explosion at a time, through a tunnel inside itself.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/1/glensanda-wp/gfh1-glensanda-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Glensanda: The Maclean Centuries https://qualla.com/glensanda/ Photo credit Michael Jagger, CC BY-SA 2.0. Before the quarry, this glen belonged to people. The 15th-century tower of Glensanda Castle - Caisteal Na Gruagaich, the Maiden's Castle - was built around 1450 by Ewen MacLean, 5th of Kingairloch, and served as the seat of the MacLeans of Kingairloch for the better part of three...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/1/glensanda-wp/gfh1-glensanda-the-maclean-centuries.mp3 0:06 2 full Glensanda: The Larder of Lorne https://qualla.com/glensanda/ Photo credit Akela NDE (talk), CC BY-SA 2.0 fr. After the Macleans left, ownership passed through English landowners and Glasgow distillers. In 1902 the cotton tycoon George Herbert Strutt bought the estate; his son Arthur lived there until his death in 1977, though his body was not discovered for five years - a measure of how...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/1/glensanda-wp/gfh1-glensanda-the-larder-of-lorne.mp3 0:06 3 full Glensanda: The Glory Hole https://qualla.com/glensanda/ Photo credit Original image by Torsten Henning, adjusted and cropped by AlasdairW, CC0. John and Angela Yeoman of Foster Yeoman bought Glensanda in 1982 with one calculation in mind: the mountain Meall na h-Easaiche was made of fine-grained granite, and the world wanted granite. The first shipload left for Houston in 1986. By June 1989 the operation had switched to ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/1/glensanda-wp/gfh1-glensanda-the-glory-hole.mp3 0:06 4 full Glensanda: Out Of Sight https://qualla.com/glensanda/ Photo credit Ludowingischer at de.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 de. The whole operation was designed to be nearly invisible. The pit sits a mile inland and cuts down into the mountain from 1,600 feet above sea level, which means yachts crossing Loch Linnhe see almost nothing of it. By 2100, when the granite reserves are expected to run out, the e...

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