Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish fiddle music, of River Cononish on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Southern Highlands. A river rising as the Allt Coire Laoigh between Ben Lui and Ben Oss, the River Cononish flows North East to join other headwaters of the River Fillan, two miles South of Tyndrum. It has a length of 3¾ miles. Gold was first discovered in Cononish glen during the 1980s. During the 1860s, there was a short lived gold rush in the Highlands, around the Kildonan and Suisgill burns in Sutherland. Locals were buoyed by the hope that panning in the burns around their home would lead to vast rewards. Among the locals who took advantage of the gold rush was a man named James Campbell. Alongside his job as the schoolmaster in Helmsdale, Campbell acted as a middleman, sourcing gold from the diggers in the burns on behalf of a jeweller in Inverness, Robert Naughten. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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