River Fillan With Music On History Visit To The Southern Central Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish fiddle music, of River Fillan on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Southern Highlands. A headwater of the River Tay, the River Fillan is formed at the meeting of headstreams to the South of Tyndrum. It flows South East for ten miles through through Strath Fillan, Scottish Gaelic: Na Sraithibh, before entering Loch Dochart two miles miles East of Crianlarich. The river and valley are named after St. Fillan who was venerated by King Robert the Bruce and whose relics were paraded before the Scottish troops before the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. Macnab clan territory lay in the Highlands, stretching from Tyndrum to Killin, but particularly Strathfillan, Glen Dochart and along the south shore of Loch Tay. The first chiefs lived at Innishewan then Bovain, later establishing a stronghold at Eilean Ran Castle at the mouth of the River Dochart but this was burned by Cromwell's troops in 1654. Meaning the sons of the abbot, the MacNabs are said to have been descended from the younger son of King Kenneth I, who became lay Abbot of Glendochart, a religious house founded by St Fillan. The MacNabs opposed Robert the Bruce over the murder of John Red' Comyn in 1306, defeating Bruce at Strathfillan in 1306, but then being defeated by him at the Pass of Brander in 1308 and Bannockburn in 1314. By the 18th century the clan MacNab chief was deeply in debt. The 16th Chief, Francis Macnab, born 1734, died 1816, lived extravagantly and, in 1828, his nephew and heir, Archibald Macnab, born 1777, died 1860, sold the lands to John Campbell, the Marquis of Breadalbane, born 1762, died 1834, and emigrated to Canada with a large number of his clansmen, settling along the Ottawa River Valley in Ontario. Septs of the clan MacNab include Abbott, Dewar and Gilfillan. 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. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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