Old travel Blog photograph of people outside the Coffee House and Library in Lochearnhead, Scotland. Lochearnhead, Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Loch Èireann is a village on the A84 Stirling to Crianlarich road at the foot of Glen Ogle, 14 miles North of the Highland Boundary Fault. It is situated at the western end of Loch Earn where the A85 road from Crieff meets the A84. Loch Earn was on the frontier between Pictland and Dalriada, or Dál Riata, the kingdom of the incoming Scots from Ireland, Dundurn at the east end of the loch being a Pictish frontier fort. This lends weight to the argument that the name Earn therefore comes from Eireann, in other words " the loch of the Irish ". The siege, by the Scots, of the Pictish Fort of Dundurn in 683 AD is mentioned in the Annals of Ulster. Giric, sometimes called Grig, King of Picts and Scots, is said to have been killed at Dundurn in 889, and is buried on Iona.
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