Train Journey Through Easter Ross On History Visit To Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip of the sight and sounds of passenger train journey on the Kyle railway line through Easter Ross on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. Ross, Scottish Gaelic: Ros, is a region of Scotland. One of the provinces of Scotland from the 9th century, it gave its name to a later earldom and to the counties of Ross-shire and, later, Ross and Cromarty. William, the 4th Earl of Ross, was present with his clan at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, and almost a century later in 1412 the castle of Dingwall, the chief seat on the mainland of Donald, Lord of the Isles, was captured by Clan Donald just before the battle of Harlaw in Aberdeenshire, which Donald fought because the ambitious Stewarts, governing in the absence of King James I, rejected his wife Mariota's rightful claim to the earldom. By the 16th century the whole area of the county was occupied by different clans. The Clan Ross held what is now Easter Ross; the Clan Munro the small tract around Ben Wyvis, including Dingwall; the Clan Macleod, Lewis, and, in the mainland, the district between Loch Maree and Loch Torridon; the Clan Macdonald of Glengarry, Coigach, and the district between Strome Ferry and Kyle of Lochalsh, and the Clan Mackenzie the remainder. The county of Ross was constituted in 1661, and Cromarty in 1685 and 1698, both being consolidated into the present county in 1889. Apart from occasional conflicts between rival clans, the only battles in the county were at Invercarron, at the head of Dornoch Firth, when Montrose was crushed by Colonel Archibald Strachan on 27 April 1650; and at Glenshiel, where the Jacobites, under the Earl of Seaforth, aided by Spaniards, were defeated by a force under the command of General Joseph Wightman on 10 June 1719. 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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