Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Drive Along South Road By Loch Tummel Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of a Winter road trip drive along the icy, snow covered, somewhat dangerous, single track South road by Loch Tummel on ancestry visit to Highland Perthshire, Scotland. This is the homeland of the Clan Robertson, also known as Clan Donnachaidh, " children of Duncan " whose lands once streteched from the Moor of Rannoch to the gates of Perth. The Clan Chiefs had strongholds at Struan, Loch Tummel and Invervack. Later these were located at Rannoch and Mount Alexander, now Dunalastair, further West from here. The clan's first recognised chief, Donnchaidh Reamhar, " Stout Duncan ", son of Andrew of Atholl, was a minor land owner and leader of a kin group around Dunkeld, and as legend has it, an enthusiastic and faithful supporter of King the Bruce during the Wars of Scottish Independence; he is believed to have looked after King Robert after the Battle of Methven in 1306. The clan asserts that Stout Duncan's relatives and followers, not yet known as Robertsons, supported Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. His descendants became known as the Duncansons, or Gaelic Clann Dhònnchaidh. Duncan is believed to have been killed at the Battle of Neville's Cross and was succeeded by Robert, from who the Clan Robertson takes its name. Robert's brother, Patrick, was the ancestor of the Robertsons of Lude who were the principal cadet branch.

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