Tour Scotland Video Painted Ceiling St Mary's Church Grandtully Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the painted ceiling in Grandtully Chapel, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish church was endowed by Sir Alexander Stewart of Grandtully in 1533, and restored in 1636. Its main southern section is most unusual in having a barrel-vaulted roof, lined with timber, which is brilliantly painted in tempera, with renaissance decoration, heraldic panels and portraits of the evangelists and other Biblical subjects. It commemorates Sir William Stewart who died 1646, and his wife Dame Agnes Moncreiff. Included in the heraldry are the arms of The Duke of Lennox and the Earl of Atholl, both of whom were Stewarts.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Whitewater Slalom River Tay Grandtully Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of Whitewater slalom paddling on the River Tay by Grandtully near Aberfeldy, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Grandtully rapids on the River Tay are a site for canoeing, kayaking and rafting in Scotland. Lots of young folks train in canoes there. Grandtully rapids is made of top falls,the middle rapids, boat breaker, clue in the name, and fourth falls. There is a nearby campsite, a converted train goods yard, owned by the Scottish Canoe Association. The forestry commission have an access point a few miles upstream giving a good entry for Whitewater Racing. The banks of the river at the rapid site were owned by Lyle Estates, of Tate and Lyle, and are now owned by a former employee of that company who allows slalom gates to be kept permanently.

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Tour Scotland Video Autumn Drive Single Track Road Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a drive along a single track road on ancestry history visit to Highland Perthshire. A single track road or one lane road is a road that permits two way travel but is not wide enough in most places to allow vehicles to pass one another, although sometimes two compact cars can pass. This kind of road is common in rural areas across the United Kingdom and elsewhere. The term is widely used in Scotland, particularly the Highlands, to describe such roads.

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Tour Scotland Video Autumn Trees Cathedral Grounds Dunkeld Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Autumn trees in the Cathedral Park on ancestry visit to Dunkeld, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Relics of Saint Columba, including his bones, were said to have been kept at Dunkeld until the Reformation, at which time they were removed to Ireland. Some believe there are still undiscovered Columban relics buried within the cathedral grounds. Dunkeld is thought to date back to the sixth century when a monastery was founded beside the River Tay. Today, the semi-ruined medieval cathedral of Dunkeld stands in wooded park land, close to River Tay.

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Old Photograph Cottage Carnan South Uist Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage in Carnan on South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. South Uist was held by the MacDonalds of Clan Ranald who made a good living from kelp harvesting owing to the demand for kelp around the turn of the 19th century. South Uist was sold to Lt. Colonel John Gordon of Cluny in 1837 and the fortunes of the island's tenants went downhill from that point. He initiated Highland Clearances to make way for sheep farming, supplanting the crofters with farmers from the Borders, who brought flocks of Blackface sheep. As a result, there was large scale emigration from the island.



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