Winter Road Trip Drive To Loch Rannoch Highland Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Winter travel video of part of a road drive with Scottish music, West on the B846 road through Kinloch Rannoch on ancestry, genealogy visit to Loch Rannoch, Highland Perthshire. The area around Loch Rannoch had seven different clans associated with it who were all involved in the Jacobite uprisings of 1746, including the Robertsons, Camerons, MacDougalls and Menzies. The MacGregor Clan were removed from the area and went into hiding. Formerly a tiny hamlet, Kinloch Rannoch, was enlarged and settled, under the direction of James Small, formerly an Ensign in Lord Loudoun’s Regiment, mainly by soldiers discharged from the army, but also by displaced crofters. Small had been appointed by the Commissioners for the Forfeited Estates to run the Rannoch estates, which had been seized from the clan chieftains who had supported the Jacobites following the Battle of Culloden in 1746. Local roads and bridges were improved, enabling soldiers at Rannoch Barracks to move more freely around the district. Clans who once lived in this area and include, MacDonald, Menzies, MacGregor, MacDougall, Cameron, Robertson, Stewart.

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