Old travel Blog photograph of a shop in Lochcarron, Wester Ross, Scotland. Loch Carron village stretches for almost 2 miles, meandering along the shore of lochcarron. In the 19th Century the village was named Janetown, then Jeantown. Lochcarron is so called from an arm of the sea which it is intersected, and which derived its name from the river Carron, signifying in Gaelic a winding stream. At an early period, the parish here was in the possession of several Clan chiefs, the principle of whom was Macdonald of Gengarry, who had the western part of Strome. All these were gradually dispossessed by Seaforth Lord Kintail, who took the Castle of Strome in 1609. William and Alexander Mackenzie, who were brothers of this parish, were the authors of some popular Gaelic poetry.
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