Tag Archives: Loch Alsh
Graveside Memories: Balmacara
It was my Granny’s birthday in June, while we were visiting Plockton, and so we paid her a visit in Balmacara Graveyard. I picked fresh flowers from the garden and we drove the twisting single track road out of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Balmacara, culdee, grave, gravestone, graveyard, history, knight, Loch Alsh, medieval, photography, scotland, travel
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Pictish footsteps
We took a walk along the shores of Loch Duich to this amazing iron age broch. Its called Caisteal Grugaig (or Dun Totaig) Broch, and is well off the beaten track on a lonely peninsula, looking across Loch Duich and … Continue reading
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Tagged ancestors, broch, Caisteal Grugaig, Dun Totaig, iron age, Loch Alsh, Loch Duich, photo, pictish, Picts, poem, poetry, Rosshire, scotland, scottish, walk, yeats
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