Strathglass
Strathglass is a
River Farrar at Struy, the combined waters become the River Beauly
.
The
A831 road runs southwest from the vicinity of Erchless Castle up the length of Strathglass and serves the village of Cannich which is the largest settlement within the valley. The road then runs east from here via Glen Urquhart to Drumnadrochit beside Loch Ness. A minor road continues southwest up the valley from Cannich towards Glen Affric.[1] Strathglass was also followed by a line of electricity pylons but that has been replaced by a line of new pylons across Eskdale Moor to the east of the strath. Both flanks of the valley are heavily wooded; on the higher ground to the northwest, beyond the forests are the moors
of Struy Forest and Balmore Forest.
Strathglass has been carved out by water and
river terraces in places.[2]
Local residents
- Jesuit priest based from a cave at Glen Cannich, and popular folk hero in the Scottish folklore of Lochaberand Strathglass.
- Fr. Thames River. He is currently being promoted by the Knights of St Columba for Canonizationby the Roman Catholic Church.
- Highland District.
- war poet and wife of a Clan Chisholm Tacksman, William Chisholm of Strathglass. Catriona composed one of the most iconic verse laments in Scottish Gaelic literature after her husband fell fighting with the Jacobite Army at the Battle of Cullodenin 1746.
- Rt.-Rev. .
References
- ^ Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale Explorer map sheet 431 Glen Urquhart and Strathglass
- ^ http://www.largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/iip/mapsportal.html?id=1002467 BGS 1:50,000 sheet Scotland sheet 83W Strathconon Solid & Drift Geology
- ^ Christianity in Strathglass, From the Website for St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Beauly.