Old photograph of Bannachra House located 3 miles East and North of Helensburgh, Scotland. Bannachra estate was a property of the Galbraiths of Inchgalbraith until gained by the Colquhouns. They built the castle in about 1512. Sir Humphrey Colquhoun was murdered here by the MacFarlanes in 1592. A servant illuminated him at a window by holding up a lamp as he retired to bed, allowing a MacFarlane bowman to shoot him through the window. The MacGregors and Colquhouns battled in Glen Fruin, Glen of weeping, in 1602. Less of a battle and more of a massacre, the MacGregors killed 200 of the people of Luss in an infamous meeting which subsequently led to 35 of their number being hanged with their chief, and partly contributed to the proscription of the Clan.
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