Creag Meagaidh Mountain On History Visit To The Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Creag Meagaidh, Scottish Gaelic: Creag Mèagaidh, a mountain on the northern side of Glen Spean on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to the Scottish Highlands. The earliest historical records for Creag Meagaidh are from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when the area was farmed by tenants who grew crops on the lower slopes and grazed cattle on the higher ground during the summer. Following the Jacobite rising of 1745 the then owner, Ewen MacPherson of Cluny, was deprived of his estate, which was then managed on behalf of the Crown by the Commissioners for Forfeited Estates. The commission began the process of evicting the tenants and consolidating the holdings into a single sheep farm, and by 1790 there were around 20,000 sheep in the parish of Laggan. In 1784 Creag Meagaidh was restored to the Macpherson family. The first recorded ascent of Creag Meagaidh is thought to have been made in 1786 by Thomas Thornton. The surname MacPherson was first found in Inverness, where they were hereditary keepers of the sacred stone of Saint Catan, and early Chief of the Clan Chattan. The MacPhersons are sometimes called the Clan Mhuirich, " the children of Muredach, " from an early Chief of the Clan, Duncan, the Parson, who was imprisoned with the Lord of the Isles after the Battle of Harlaw. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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