Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the parish church and graveyard on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Glen Lyon in Highland Perthshire, Britain. Glen Lyon, Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Lìomhann, is a glen in the Perth and Kinross region of Scotland. It is the longest enclosed glen in Scotland and runs for 34 miles from Loch Lyon in the West to the village of Fortingall in the East. This glen was also known as An Crom Ghleann, meaning The Bent Glen. The land given over to the MacGregors was Scottish Gaelic: An Tòiseachd. The glen has been home to many families, including MacGregors, Lyons, Menzies, Stewarts, Macnaughtons, MacGibbons and the Campbells of Glen Lyon. Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, born 1630, died 1696, led the detachment of government troops responsible for the infamous Glencoe Massacre, of the MacDonalds of Glencoe in 1691. Glenlyon has many connections with St Adomnan, including his cross at Craigiainie where he is said to have stopped the plague and he might have founded a monastery beside the ancient Yew at Fortingall. Local legend says that Adomnan was buried a few miles to the east at the Abbey of Dull. The present church at Innerwick was built in 1828 on the site of an earlier church. It was built to a design by William Thomson which had been made for Telford’s Parliamentary church-building programme. This church was constructed for the local landowner, rather than for the Government. The porch was added in 1898. The church is harled on the outside. 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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