Qualla: The Rough Bounds https://qualla.com/the-rough-bounds 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/5/u/the-rough-bounds-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Rough Bounds https://qualla.com/the-rough-bounds The Rough Bounds: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-rough-bounds/ Photo credit Iain Simpson, CC BY-SA 2.0. An anonymous writer in 1750 set down a description that still fits: "all these countries viz. Knoydart, the Two Morrirs, Moydart, and Arisaig, are the most Rough Mountainous and impassible parts in all the Highlands of Scotland, and are commonly called by the Inhabitants of the Neighbouring countries the highlands of the Highlands." Bounded by Loch Hourn, Loch Shiel, and Loch Moidart, the area has no official name today; cartographers from Blaeu's 1654 atlas onward have simply marked it as the territory west from Lochaber. It is one of the emptiest stretches of mainland Britain, and the last place on Scottish soil where Bonnie Prince Charlie stood before fleeing into exile.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/u/the-rough-bounds-wp/gf5u-the-rough-bounds-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Rough Bounds: Bronze Age Continuity https://qualla.com/the-rough-bounds/ Photo credit Blaeu, Public domain. The Rough Bounds have been used, in their fashion, for a very long time. When archaeologists from the University of Edinburgh and Headland Archaeology surveyed a six-kilometre realignment of the A830 road near Arisaig in 2000-2001, they found a Bronze Age kerb cairn, turf buildin...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/u/the-rough-bounds-wp/gf5u-the-rough-bounds-bronze-age-continuity.mp3 0:06 2 full The Rough Bounds: The Lordship of Garmoran https://qualla.com/the-rough-bounds/ Photo credit Blaeu, Public domain. After the Vikings, this area belonged to the Norse Kingdom of the Isles, and then through the Norse-Gaelic figure Somerled to a kingdom of his own making. After Somerled's death the territory that became the Rough Bounds, along with Uist, Eigg, and Rum, formed Garmoran, ruled by ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/u/the-rough-bounds-wp/gf5u-the-rough-bounds-the-lordship-of-garmoran.mp3 0:06 3 full The Rough Bounds: Catholic, Jacobite, Hidden https://qualla.com/the-rough-bounds/ Photo credit Blaeu, Public domain. When the Statutes of Iona attempted to enforce the Scottish Reformation across the highlands in 1609, the Rough Bounds simply refused. The area remained resolutely Roman Catholic and sided with the Royalists in the Civil War. In the following century, Jacobite sympathy ran so dee...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/u/the-rough-bounds-wp/gf5u-the-rough-bounds-catholic-jacobite-hidden.mp3 0:06 4 full The Rough Bounds: Trained in Secret, Spoken in Gaelic https://qualla.com/the-rough-bounds/ Photo credit Blaeu, Public domain. Moidart did not get its road - the A861 - until 1966; before that, you walked in or sailed in. That remoteness made it perfect for secret things. During the Second World War, the Special Operations Executive established its Scottish headquarters just outside Arisaig, building par...

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