Old Photographs Of Glendaruel Argyll And Bute Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Glendaruel; a glen in the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute. The main settlement in Glendaruel, Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Dà Ruadhail, is the Clachan of Glendaruel.The Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin was born here in 1698 to the Reverend John Maclaurin, who was minister to the parish of Kilmodan. Glendaruel is thought to be one of the glens praised in the Gaelic poem The Lament of Deirdre,in which reference is made to a Glenndaruadh. It is found in the 15th-century Glenmasan manuscript, which may go back to an original written down in 1238. Deirdre is a tragic heroine in Irish mythology, and in the poem she is lamenting the necessity of leaving Scotland to return to Ireland. Kilmodan parish church dedicated to St. Modan, was built in 1783. There are references though to a Kilmodan church as far back as 1250.

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