Road Trip Drive To Visit Loch Tay By Kenmore In The Highlands Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, on a single track road over the mountains from Glen Quaich on ancestry visit to Loch Tay by Kenmore in the Perthshire Scottish Highlands. This one of the most scenic drives in Scotland. Scottish poet, Robert Burns travelled this route in 1787. This road is only wide enough for one vehicle. It has special passing places. If you see a vehicle coming towards you, or the driver behind wants to overtake, try to pull into a passing place on your left, or wait opposite a passing place on your right. Give way to vehicles coming uphill whenever you can. If necessary, reverse until you reach a passing place to let the other vehicle pass. The entire population of Glen Quaich, a lovely heather clad glen running inland from Loch Tay to the hamlet of Amulree, and where over 500 people lived, was evicted by the second Marquis of Breadalbane. The evictions were carried out before the houses were set alight. The people decided to emigrate to Canada, and in particular to an untamed area of Ontario owned by the Canada Land Company. Eight or nine families had arrived there voluntarily in the summer of 1832 after a voyage lasting three months. Amongst these was John Crerar from Amulree who was older than the average immigrant. He was a tall, well built man who had been factor on the Shian estate in Glenquaich, and also a whisky smuggler, running distilled spirit from illicit stills in the glens to the towns. The excisemen were closing in and John Crerar emigrated to Ontario to avoid arrest. Here he found employment constructing the Twentieth Line Road into an untamed region of 44,000 acres known as the North Easthope Concession, in south Ontario. This was named after Sir John Easthope, a director of the Canada Land Company and had first been surveyed just three years before in 1829. After the Breadalbane evictions began in 1834 more and more families from central Highland Perthshire began to emigrate to North Easthope. They left with great sadness. But the immigrants buckled down to the task of carving a new homeland out of the wilderness. Kenmore village is located where Loch Tay drains into the River Tay. The original village was sited on the north side of river approximately two miles from its present site and was known as Inchadney. In 1540 Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy started the construction of Balloch castle on the opposite bank of the river and the entire village was moved to a prominent headland by the shores of Loch Tay, hence the name Kenmore, which translates from Scots Gaelic to " big, or large, head. The village as it is seen today is a model village laid out by 3rd Earl of Breadalbane in 1760. Loch Tay, Scottish Gaelic, Loch Tatha, is a freshwater loch in the central highlands of Scotland. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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