Tour Scotland short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Loch Maree, Scottish Gaelic: Loch Ma-ruibhe, on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Wester Ross in the North West Highlands. Loch Maree contains five large wooded islands and over 60 smaller ones, many of which have their own lochans. The largest island, Eilean Sùbhainn, contains a loch that itself contains an island, a situation that occurs nowhere else in Great Britain. The waters of this Scottish loch were thought to have curative effects, with being submerged in the water thought to be a cure for lunacy. It has has its own monster in the form of the muc-sheilch. The loch is often referred to as the most beautiful loch in the Highlands. Between 671 and 722 Máel Ruba arrived at Loch Maree, and founded a chapel on Isle Maree. Remains of this chapel were reportedly still visible in 1861 but no traces now remain. During the middle ages the island of Eilean Ghrùididh on Loch Maree was a centre for the MacBeaths; in or shortly after 1430 the MacBeaths were displaced by Clan MacLeod. The loch became a popular spot for trout fishing after Queen Victoria visited the Loch Maree Hotel at Talladale in 1877.
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