Spring Road Trip Drive To Visit Loch Rannoch And Kinloch Rannoch Highland Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a May a road drive with Scottish accordion music, on a single track road to visit Loch Rannoch and Kinloch Rannoch on ancestry, genealogy visit to Highlands of 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. 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. Loch Rannoch, Scottish Gaelic: Loch Raineach, is a freshwater loch in Perth and Kinross. It is over nine miles long in a west to east direction with an average width of about three quarters of a mile, and is deepest at its eastern end, reaching a depth of 440 feet. The River Tummel begins at its eastern end, where the small village of Kinloch Rannoch can be found, whilst the wild expanse of Rannoch Moor extends to the west of the loch. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.