Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music. of standing stones at Ballymeanoch on visit to Kilmartin Glen. The impressive standing stones have stood here for over 4,000 years. A local legends tells of Lady Ballymeanoch, a very unpleasant woman who was always causing problems and fighting with her neighbours. One day, very uncharacteristically she invited all her neighbours to a giant banquet in her barn as an act of peace supposedly to reconcile their differences. At the feast all her guest were sat in between her family members and close friends. A giant haggis was brought to the table, as she went to cut open the haggis with her dirk she uttered the words " let my friends do as I do " at that moment all her followers pulled out their dirks and stabbed to death the guest beside them. Forty of her enemies were killed in the barn, only one managed to escape and he ran across the fields shouting ‘Och on Och, Och on Och.’ He was eventually caught and the place where he is said to have fallen is to this day called Killinochonoch.
Kilmartin Glen is an area in Argyll not far from Kintyre. It has the most important concentration of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains in mainland Scotland
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