Old Travel Blog Photograph Of Robert Irvine Aberfeldy Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of lawyer, Robert Irvine, from of Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland. Clan Irvine, also called Irving, is a Lowland Scottish clan. Sometime between 1124 and 1125 Gilchrist, son of Erwini, witnessed a charter of the Lords of Galloway. The first lands by the name of Irvine were in Dumfriesshire. According to family tradition the origin of the clan chief's family is connected with the early Celtic monarchs of Scotland. Duncan Irvine settled at Bonshaw. Duncan was the brother of Crinan, who claimed descent from the High Kings of Ireland, through the Abbots of Dunkeld. Crinan married a daughter of Malcolm II of Scotland and their son was Duncan I of Scotland. William de Irwin was a neighbor of the Clan Bruce. The Irvines supported their powerful neighbors, the Bruces, and William de Irwin became the armor bearer and secretary to king Robert the Bruce. For twenty years of faithful service William de Irwin was granted the royal forest of Drum, in Aberdeenshire, as a reward. This then became the seat of the chief of Clan Irvine

Robert Burns wrote the song, " The Birks Of Aberfeldy " in late August 1787, during a visit to the Birks of Aberfeldy, then known as the Den of Moness. Legend has it that Burns wrote the song after resting in a natural seat on the rock, just at the side of the Birks. This natural seat is well known and a plaque now exists at the exact spot where Burns was inspired to write the ballad.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Of Donald Mackenzie Birnam Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of first world war soldier, Donald Mackenzie, from Birnam, Perthshire, Scotland. Clan Mackenzie, Scottish Gaelic: Clann Choinnich, is a Scottish clan, traditionally associated with Kintail and lands in Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands. Traditional genealogies trace the ancestors of the Mackenzie chiefs to the 12th century. However, the earliest Mackenzie chief recorded by contemporary evidence is Alexander Mackenzie of Kintail who died some time after 1471. During the Wars of Scottish Independence, the Mackenzies supported Robert the Bruce, but feuded with the Earls of Ross in the latter part of the 14th century. During the 15th and 16th centuries the Mackenzies feuded with the neighboring clans of Munro and MacDonald. In the 17th century the Mackenzie chief was made Earl of Seaforth in the peerage of Scotland. During the Scottish Civil War of the 17th century the Mackenzies largely supported the Royalists. During the Jacobite rising of 1715 the chief and clan of Mackenzie supported the Jacobite cause. However, during the Jacobite rising of 1745 the clan was divided with the chief, Kenneth Mackenzie, Lord Fortrose, supporting the British Hanoverian Government and his relative, George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie, supporting the Jacobites. Birnam is approximately one hour from Glasgow and Edinburgh airports, and two hours from Inverness by car.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Road To Slioch Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the road To Slioch, North of the village of Kinlochewe, Scotland. Slioch, Scottish Gaelic: Sleaghach, is a mountain in the Scottish Highlands situated in Wester Ross. The mountain is composed of Torridonian sandstone on a base of Lewisian Gneiss and has steep crags on three sides and allows easy access for the walker only from the south east where the large open corrie of Coire na Sleaghaich has two ridges on its flanks which the walker can use. The mountain's name comes from the Gaelic word “ sleagh ” and means “ the spear ” and this only becomes obvious when Slioch is viewed from Lochan Fada to the west, from here the subsidiary top of Sgurr an Tuill Bhain, Peak of the White Hollow, dominates as a slender peak and gives the mountain its name. Wild goats are often seen on the mountain.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Birkmyre Park Kilmacolm Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Birkmyre Park in Kilmacolm located fifteen miles West of Glasgow, Scotland. In 1889 Adam Birkmyre bought the land to the front of Shalott with the intention of providing public recreation ground for the people of Kilmacolm in particular the youth and the young children. The park was formally opened on 7th June 1890 and a celebration was held. 400 school children took part in a parade and the head of this was the 1st Renfrew Voulenteer Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders pipe band. This was a gift to the people of Kilmacolm and he stipulated that nothing was to be built close by to either hinder or reduce the openness and the view or the place.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Bank West Linton Scotland

Old photograph of the Bank, shops, buildings and people on the High Street in West Linton in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This is a village and civil parish in the Tweeddale area of the Scottish Borders previously the in the historic county of Peeblesshire. At the end of the eighteenth century there were between twenty and thirty looms in the village, rising to about eighty in the early nineteenth century, some weaving household goods but most weaving cotton cloth for Edinburgh and Glasgow merchants. It is estimated that in 1834 about fifty hands worked in the mines and quarries of the area. In 1834 there were five tailors in the village, four dressmakers, two butchers, five carriers, nine retailers of meal, groceries and spirits, two surgeons and four innkeepers. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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