Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of Loch an Eilein Castle on ancestry, genealogy, history, visit to the Cairngorms Highlands. Loch an Eilein comes from the Scottish Gaelic and means Loch of the island. In the middle of the Loch, on what may be a natural island, are the ruins of a small 14th century castle. It was originally constructed as a place of refuge from thieves and threatening activities. The castle is said to have once been the property of Alexander Stewart the Wolf of Badenoch. The castle was the site of conflict. The Jacobites, retreating from Cromdale in 1690, besieged the castle. Dame Grizel Mor Grant, widow of the fifth laird Grant, held the castle against the Jacobites. The castle fell out of use in the late 18th century. The castle may have originally been connected to the shore by a causeway. The causeway became submerged when the water level in the loch was raised by estate work and the building of a dam in the 18th century. The castle was used as the site of the island graveyard in the TV show Monarch of the Glen. Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Ruadh MacGriogair; baptised 7 March 1671, died 28 December 1734, was a Scottish outlaw, who along with other cattle rustlers used the loch, and one side of the loch is called Robbers Way.
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