Tour Scotland Travel Video Bernera Barracks Glenelg West Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of Bernera Barracks, located in Glenelg, near the Isle of Skye, on ancestry visit to the Western Scottish Highlands of Scotland. Bernera Barracks were constructed between 1717 and 1723 as part of a campaign by the British government to subdue the local population which had risen up in arms in the Jacobite Rising of 1715, and which would do so again in 1745. The barracks were built by Sir Patrick Strachan. Some of the stone used in the construction was taken from a nearby broch. The Government troops who were garrisoned here during the Jacobite uprisings were also intended to control the crossing to Skye. The barracks are now in ruins, a state which they appear to have entered by the close of the eighteenth century, shortly after the withdrawal of troops in 1797.

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