Tour Scotland Travel Video Dreich Drive North Coast 500 A385 Road To Ullapool Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of a dreich road trip drive, with Scottish music, North on the A385 road, North Coast 500 route, to Ullapool by Loch Broom on ancestry visit to the North West Scottish Highlands of Scotland. Dreich is a Scots word for dull, rainy cloudy. The MacAulays of Ullapool and Loch Broom were a minor sept or clan. the MacAulays may possibly be related to the MacAulays of Lewis who are centred on the Isle of Lewis. These two septs are thought to be related because of the close proximity between the lands they occupied. The MacAulays of Ullapool and Loch Broom were a sept of the Clan MacKenzie, and took an active part in the history or the area. The surname MacAulay, in the area of the Scottish Hebrides, is thought to be derived from the Gaelic Mac Amhlaoibh or Mac Amhlaidh, which are Gaelic patronymic forms of the Old Norse personal name Áleifr and Óláfr. The small town of Ullapool on the eastern shores of Loch Broom, derives it’s name from Olafr bólstaðr, meaning from Old Norse: the homestead of Olaf. Scotland's Route 66.

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