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Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire; Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History With a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree
Gairloch in NorthWest RossShire Its Records Traditions Inhabitants and Natural History With a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree Author:John H. Dixon General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Original Publisher: Co-operative Print. Co. Subjects: Gairloch, Scotland Gairloch (Scotland) History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / General Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illust... more »rations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PART I. Records And Traditions Of Gairloch. CHAPTER 1'AGE I. Early History - 3 II. The Tragedy of Isle Maree - 7 III. The Mackenzies of Kintail - - II IV. Ewan Mac Gabhar, the Son of the Goat 14 V. The MacRaes of Kintail and Gairloch - - 19 VI. The MacBeaths - 21 VII. The M'Leods of Gairloch - - 24 VIII. The Macdonalds in Gairloch 27 IX. Hector Roy Mackenzie, First Laird uf Gairloch - - 29 X. John Glassich Mackenzie and his Sons - 36 XI. John Roy Mackenzie - 38 XII. Expulsion of the M'Leods from Gairloch - - 43 XIII. Alastair Breac, and his Son and Grandson - - 49 XIV. The Baronets of Gairloch, and some other Gaii loch Mackenzies - 53 XV. Gairloch Estates, and Old Names of Places - 60 XVI. Ecclesiastical History of Gairloch - - 63 XVII. Ancient Gairloch Ironworks - 72 XVIII- The Historic Ironworks of Loch Maree - 75 XIX. The Iron Ores used in Gairloch - - 86 XX. Remains of Ironworks in the Parish of Gairloch - - 88 XXI. Antiquities - 97 GAIRLOCH. Cbapter I. Early History. THE blessedness attributed to the nation without a history cannot be assigned to the parish of Gairloch. Although her ancient history has never been written, it is to be feared her inhabitants were far from wholly blessed in the far off days of yore. The earlier annals of Gairloch are indeed veiled in mists, almost as impenetrable as those that often shroud her mountains. Amid the gloom there are faint glimpses to be had of t...« less