Tour Scotland Video Fish Window Holy Name Parish Church Oakley Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Fish stained glass window in Holy Name Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Oakley, Fife, Scotland. This window was by Gabriel Loire, born April 21, 1904, died December 25, 1996. He was a French stained glass artist.

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Tour Scotland Video Recta pete Window Holy Name Parish Church Oakley Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Recta pete stained glass window in Holy Name Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Oakley, Fife. This window was by Gabriel Loire, born April 21, 1904, died December 25, 1996. He was a French stained glass artist. Recta pete means, Seek for right things.

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Tour Scotland Video Sun Window Holy Name Parish Church Oakley Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Sun stained glass window in Holy Name Parish Church on ancestry visit to Oakley, Fife, Scotland. This window was by Gabriel Loire, born April 21, 1904, died December 25, 1996. He was a French stained glass artist.

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Tour Scotland Video Of Photography Holy Trinity Church Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of photography of the Holy Trinity Church at East Port on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The congregation of this Scottish church originally worshipped in a church on Pilmuir Street. Due to an increase in the size of the congregation a larger building was required, which resulted in the construction of this church on a new site in 1891 under the plans of Robert Rowand Anderson.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Sunset Kinnoull Woodland Park Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of sunset on visit to Kinnoull Hill Woodland Park by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Drive To Scone Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of part of a morning drive on a narrow road from Kinfauns to visit Scone, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Road To Applecross Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland video of a drive on the road to Applecross, Wester Ross, Scotland. In 1822 a road was built from Kishorn in the east and over the Bealach na Ba, or Pass of the Cattle, to Applecross, Scotland. The pass is sometimes called the Bealach nam Bo. This is a video of part of the drive down the pass from Applecross to Kishorn.

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Old Photograph Balnakeil Scotland

Old photograph of Balnakeil located one mile North West of Durness, Northern Sutherland, Scotland. Balnakeil house, which dates from 1744 is built on the site of a monastery that served the church of Balnakeil. It was built by the Clan Mackay chiefs.
Clan Mackay is an ancient and once-powerful Scottish clan from the far North of the Scottish Highlands, but with roots in the old kingdom of Moray. They supported Robert the Bruce during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century. In the centuries that followed they were anti Jacobite. The territory of the Clan Mackay consisted of the parishes of Farr, Tongue, Durness and Eddrachillis, and was known as Strathnaver, in the north west of the county of Sutherland. However, it was not until 1829 that Strathnaver was considered part of Sutherland when the chief sold his lands to the Earls of Sutherland and the Highland Clearances then had dire consequences for the clan. In the 17th century the Mackay chief's territory had extended to the east to include the parish of Reay in the west of the neighbouring county of Caithness. The chief of the clan is Lord Reay and the lands of Strathnaver later became known as the Reay Country.



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Old Photograph Durine Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages in Durine by Durness, Northern Sutherland, Scotland. Sutherland is perhaps best known for its saddest memory: the Highland Clearances, the forceful eviction of people from their homes in the 18th century by the landowners to make way for large sheep farms. Sutherland suffered more than most parts of the Highlands, scattering people far and wide across the globe. The clearances also saw many forced to move from their inland homes to live along the coast scraping a life with crofting and fishing. It was the villages produced by this policy that formed the last Gaelic speaking communities to be found on the east coast of Scotland.



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Old Photographs Portpatrick Scotland

Old photographs of Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Dating back some 700 years and built adjacent to the ruins of nearby Dunskey Castle, Portpatrick's position on the Rhins of Galloway affords visitors views of the Northern Irish coast 21 miles to the west, with clifftop walks and beaches both north and south. This Scottish village was founded on fishing, operating from the sandy, crescent-shaped harbour that remains the focal point of the village today.


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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Pipers At The Gates Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of bagpipers at the entrance gates of Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Leaves And Swans Loch Faskally Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland wildlife nature camera travel video of Autumn leaves and Swans on Loch Faskally on ancestry visit to Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.
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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Trees Loch Tay Kenmore Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of trees on the banks of Loch Tay on ancestry visit to Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland. The village of Kenmore dates from the 16th century. The original village was sited on the north side of river approximately two miles from its present site and was known as Inchadney. In 1540 Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy started the construction of Balloch castle on the opposite bank of the river and the entire village was moved to a prominent headland by the shores of Loch Tay, hence the name Kenmore, which translates from Scots Gaelic to large head. The village as it is seen today is a model village laid out by 3rd Earl of Breadalbane in 1760.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Highland Cow Side of The Road Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a Highland cow by the side of the road on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip Highland, Perthshire, Scotland. Highland cattle, Scottish Gaelic: Bò Ghàidhealach; in Scots: Heilan coo, are a Scottish cattle breed. They have long horns and long wavy coats that are coloured black, brindle, red, yellow, white, silver, looks white but with a black nose, or dun, and they are raised primarily for their meat. They originated in the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland and were first mentioned in the 6th century AD.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Croft Moraig Stone Circle Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of Croft Moraig Standing Stones Circle on history visit and trip to Aberfeldy, Highland Perthshire. This stone circle is located near the road between Aberfeldy and Kenmore. It is the most complete stone circle of its type in Scotland. Croft Moraig dates from about 5000 years ago.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Weem Castle Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of Weem Castle also known as Castle Menzies on ancestry visit and trip near Aberfeldy in Highland Perthshire. This Scottish Castle was the seat of the Chiefs of Clan Menzies for over 400 years. In 1665, Sir Alexander Menzies was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia. The chiefs opposed the religious and political policies of James VII, and when he was forced from his throne in 1688, Menzies declared for Queen Mary and her husband, the Prince of Orange. At the end of the eighteenth century, the Menzies name gained momentary prominence when James Menzies, a merchant in Weem, was one of the leaders of a protest by thousands of men and women against the Militia Ballot Act, passed in fear of a French invasion in the wake of the Revolution of 1789. The Menzies baronetcy became extinct on the death of Sir Neil Menzies of Menzies, eighth Baronet, in 1910. His sister, Miss Egidia Menzies, succeeded to the estates, but on her death in 1918, they were sold. Menzies Castle fell into a dilapidated state, and during the Second World War was used as a Polish army medical stores depot. It was saved from ruin in 1957, when it was purchased by the Menzies Clan Society.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Sunset Tay Valley Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of sunset over the Tay Valley and River Tay on visit to Kinnoull Hill by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Setting Sun Tay Valley Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of the sun setting behind Tay Valley and River Tay on visit to Kinnoull Hill by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Tree Reflections Loch Tay Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of tree reflection in Loch Tay on ancestry visit to Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Crannog Loch Tay Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Scottish Crannog in Loch Tay on ancestry visit to Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland. A crannog is a type of ancient loch dwelling found throughout Scotland and Ireland dating from 5,000 years ago. Many crannogs were built out in the water as defensive homesteads and represented symbols of power and wealth. The Scottish Crannog Centre in the video features a unique reconstruction of an early Iron Age loch dwelling.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Hot Air Balloon Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a Virgin Hot Air Balloon taking off from North Inch Park on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video War Memorial Dull Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of the War Memorial in the churchyard in Dull on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Highland Perthshire, Scotland. In June 2012, the town of Boring in Oregon, USA, accepted the proposal of Dull to pair their municipalities, in an effort to promote tourism in both places as a play on their names. They became sister cities.

World War I Roll of Honour

Private; Duncan Dewar
Private; Archibald Forbes
Private; John Low
Captain; Robert Menzies
Private; James Menzies
Private; Donald Munro
Guardsman; Charles McCalley
Corporal; James MacIntosh
Sergeant; John MacIntosh
Private; Peter McNab
Sergeant; Robert Nicol

The distance from Dull to Glasgow and Paisley is 74 miles

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Parish Church Dull Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of the Parish Church in Dull on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Highland Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish church is on the site of an early Christian monastery founded by St Adomnán, Abbot of Iona. In June 2012, the town of Boring in Oregon, USA, accepted the proposal of Dull to pair their municipalities, in an effort to promote tourism in both places as a play on their names. They became sister cities.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Drive Dull Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a drive to the village of Dull on ancestry visit to Highland Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village located near Aberfeldy consists of a single street of houses on the north side of the valley of the River Tay. In June 2012, the town of Boring in Oregon, USA, accepted the proposal of Dull to pair their municipalities, in an effort to promote tourism in both places as a play on their names. They became sister cities.

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Old Photograph Shapinsay Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats in Shapinsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland. The Balfour family dominated the village of Shapinsay during the 18th and 19th centuries; the Balfours transformed life on the island by introducing new agricultural techniques.




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Old Photograph Croftfoot Scotland

Old photograph of Croftfoot located on the the southeastern side of Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish village is named after an old steading which was situated at the eastern end of the present day Croftfoot Road, where the Castlemilk Burn now enters a culvert downstream from the site of Castlemilk House.



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Old Photograph Crofters Hoeing Scotland

Old photograph of Crofters hoeing crops on the Orkney Islands, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Walk In The Rain Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video shot on a walk in the rain by the River Tay on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video White Highland Cow Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a white Highland cow grazing in a field on visit to rural Perthshire, Scotland. The distinctive Highland cattle are one of Britain's oldest breeds and are instantly recognisable for their rusty, red and brown hair and long horns. This cow is not albino, but has a recessive gene which means she has been covered in completely white and pale hair.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Waterfall Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a Scottish Waterfall on the River Braan on ancestry visit to Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. The River Braan is a tributary of the River Tay in Scotland. Within the county of Perth and Kinross, it flows 11 miles eastwards from Loch Freuchie, near Amulree, and joins the River Tay near Dunkeld.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Blair Castle Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of Blair Castle from the viewpoint on the A9 road to Edinburgh and Inverness on history visit to Highland Perthshire. This viewpoint is just North of Blair Atholl in Highland Perthshire. Always worth a visit. The castle stands in Glen Garry, and commands a strategic position on the main route, now the A9 road, through the central Scottish Highlands. In the Forty Five, Blair Castle was occupied twice by Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his Jacobite army: in early September 1745, for several days, and then in early February 1746, again for several days. However, the Jacobites then unwisely abandoned it and Government forces, including Lowland Clan Agnew then occupied it. They held Blair Castle against the Jacobites, who laid siege to the castle during the last stages of the rising, in March 1746. They were besieged to near starvation until the Jacobite forces withdrew to fight the British Government forces at the Battle of Culloden.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Golf Course Aberfeldy Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of the golf club and course on ancestry history visit and trip to Aberfeldy, Highland Perthshire. One of the oldest courses in the Scottish highlands, the first nine holes were built in 1895. It was laid out on what was then known as The Cour - grazing ground for cattle. In 1907, Sir Neil Menzies offered to rent the club Weem Cow Park, on the north side of the river, to make the course 18 holes. Negotiations failed and in 1908, the lady members proposed extending the course onto ground at Killiechassie, further east on the north side of the river. That also came to nothing. It was not until 1991 that the Weem Cow Park was finally purchased by the club. A new footbridge was built over the river and the course became the 18 holes.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Wades Bridge Aberfeldy Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of General Wade's Bridge over the River Tay on ancestry visit to Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland. Lieutenant General George Wade, born 1673, died 1748, was sent in 1725 to Scotland following the 1689, 1715 and 1719 Jacobite uprisings to build roads and bridges in the Scottish Highlands. He constructed this famous in 1733 to the design of architect William Adam, father of the more famous Robert Adam.

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Old Photograph Rubh' an Dùnain Scotland

Old photograph of Rubha an Dùnain or Rubh' an Dùnain, an uninhabited peninsula to the south of the Cuillin hills on Isle Of Skye, Scotland. In the post Viking era Rubha an Dùnain was the home of Clan MacAskill and the peninsula contains the ruins of a small village, including an 18th century tacksman's house. The area was occupied until the clearances of the 1860s.

MacAskill, also spelt Macaskill, is a surname. It is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Mac Asgaill, meaning " son of Asgall ". The Gaelic name Asgall is a reduced form of the Old Norse personal name Ásketill. In Gaelic the MacAskills are known as Clann t-Ascaill, and Clann t-Asgaill. In Scottish Gaelic, the surname is rendered MacAsgaill. In Irish, the surname is rendered Mac Ascaill. Early forms of the name on record in Scotland are Mackaiscail in 1766, Mackaiscal in 1769, and Macaiskill in 1790. An early form of the name in England is Mac Askil in 1311.



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Tour Scotland Parting Glass Video

Tour Scotland Celtic music video recommendation. Cara Dillon singing The Parting Glass. This is a Scottish and Irish traditional song, often sung at the end of a gathering of friends. It was the most popular parting song sung in Scotland before Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne.

Of all the money that e'er I had, I spent it in good company.
And of all the harm that e'er I've done, alas it was to none but me.
And all I've done for want of wit, to memory now I can't recall.
So fill to me the parting glass. Goodnight and joy be with you all.

Of all the comrades that e'er I had, they're sorry for my going away,
And all the sweethearts that e'er I had, they would wish me one more day to stay,
But since it falls unto my lot that I should rise and you should not,
I'll gently rise and I'll softly call, " Goodnight and joy be with you all! "

A man may drink and not be drunk, a man may fight and not be slain
A man may court a pretty girl and perhaps be welcomed back again
But since it has so ordered been by a time to rise and a time to fall
Come fill to me the parting glass, good night and joy be with you all
Come fill to me the parting glass, good night and joy be with you all

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Old Photograph Crofters Cutting Peat North Uist Outer Hebrides Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cutting Peats on North Uist, Scotland. North Uist in the Outer Hebrides was hit hard during the Highland Clearances, and there was large scale emigration from the island to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.


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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Highland Calf Killiecrankie Highland Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a Highland calf on a hillside on visit to Killiecrankie located North of Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Drive To Blair Atholl Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of an afternoon drive North on the B8079 road from Killiecrankie on ancestry visit to Blair Atholl and Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Blair Atholl is a small town in Highland Perthshire, built about the confluence of the Rivers Tilt and Garry in one of the few areas of flat land in the midst of the Grampian Mountains. The town is bypassed by the main A9 road and has a railway station on the Highland Main Line. The main road north from Perth to Inverness ran through the village until it was bypassed in 1984.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Drive To Episcopal Church Blair Atholl Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a road trip drive to St Adamnan's Scottish Episcopal Church at Kilmaveonaig on ancestry history visit to Blair Atholl, Highland Perthshire. This Scottish chapel was rebuilt in 1794 by John Stewart on the site of the old parish church of Kilmaveonaig built in 1591. Enlarged 1899 by the addition of the battlemented Gothic porch. Lorimer reredos added 1912. Old bell 1629, from Little Dunkeld church.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Celtic Cross Prayer Stone Pitlochry Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland short late Summer early Autumn travel video clip of a Celtic cross prayer stone on a hillside on ancestry history visit and trip North of Pitlochry, Highland Perthshire. This Pictish standing stone has a carved cross on either side and is located next to the remains of an old chapel beside the road, It is known locally as the Priest's stone. The Picts were a tribal confederation of peoples who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late Iron Age and Early Medieval periods. They are thought to have been ethnolinguistically Celtic.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Drive North Of Pitlochry Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a morning drive on a narrow Scottish forest road North of Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Reflections Loch Faskally Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of tree reflections on ancestry, history visit and trip to Loch Faskally, Highland, Perthshire. The loch is popular with anglers. The water holds a good head of brown trout and the native fish are augmented by a stocking in the 1 to 5lb range. A 7 pounder was recorded in 2001. Salmon and a few sea trout pass through as they head up the Tummel and Garry systems. 54 salmon were caught in 2001 the best being a fish of 14 ½ lbs, however fish to 28lbs have also been caught. June also sees the arrival of the summer grilse. There are also good numbers of small pike with a few larger specimens mixed in. The best recorded pike have been over 30lb.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Tay Valley Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn morning travel video of the Tay Valley and River Tay on history visit and trip to Kinnoull by Perth, Perthshire The River Tay is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh longest in the United Kingdom. The Tay originates in western Scotland on the slopes of Ben Lui, then flows easterly across the Highlands, through Loch Dochart, Loch Iubhair and Loch Tay, then continues east through Strathtay, in the centre of Scotland, then south easterly through Perth, where it becomes tidal, to its mouth at the Firth of Tay, south of Dundee.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Drive Kinnoull Hill Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a morning drive on a narrow Scottish road on ancestry visit to Kinnoull Hill by Perth, Perthshire. Kinnoull Hill is easily accessible via car, with a nice walk through woodland to the summit. It's a bit steep in places but always good underfoot.
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Old Photograph Crofters Carrying Peat Scotland

Old photograph of crofters carrying Peat baskets on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. Crofters bringing home the peat.



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Old Photograph Achosrigan Scotland

Old Photograph of crofters cottage in Achosrigan in Appin, Scotland. Appin is a remote coastal district of the Scottish West Highlands bounded to the west by Loch Linnhe, to the south by Loch Creran, to the east by the districts of Benderloch and Lorne, and to the north by Loch Leven. The Appin Stewarts is the West Highland branch of Clan Stewart, descend from Sir James Stewart of Perston, 4th son of Sir John Stewart of Bonkill, second son of Alexander, the 4th High Steward of Scotland. Sir James was the grandfather of John Stewart of Innermeath, who, through marriage to Isabel MacDougall, daughter of John Gallda MacDougall, Lord of Lorne, became the first Stewart Lord of Lorne. The Lordship of Lorne passed down for 2 more generations to Sir John Stewart, the third Stewart Lord of Lorne.



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Old Photograph Tulliallan Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Tulliallan Castle, Kincardine-on-Forth in Fife, Scotland. The first fortification at Tulliallan was built some time before 1304, when it was ordered to be strengthened by King Edward I of England. The position was strategic, near the main ferry over the River Forth. The castle was owned later by William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, born 1327, died 1384. Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas gifted the Tulliallan estate to the Edmiston family in 1402. In 1456 the gift was confirmed to Sir James Edmiston, great grandson of King James II of Scotland, by royal charter. Patrick Blackader, grandson of Cuthbert Blackader of Blackader Castle in Berwickshire, married Elizabeth Edmiston, daughter of Sir James. She brought the Tualliallen estate as her dowry. A noted member of the Blackadder family of Tulliallan was Robert Blackadder, brother of Patrick Blackadder, Laird of Tulliallan. Robert Blackadder was Bishop of Aberdeen, Bishop of Glasgow from 1484 and then in 1492 the first Archbishop of Glasgow, who added the eponymous crypt and aisle in Glasgow Cathedral. The bishop sided with rebel nobles who defeated and killed King James III of Scotland in 1488 at the Battle of Sauchieburn. The archbishop died while on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1508. The last occupant of the old castle was Colonel Erskine, who died in the 1790s. George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith bought the estate in 1799. He built a new castle and the roof of the old castle was removed and it was allowed to crumble into ruins.



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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Drive To Castle Menzies Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a drive to Castle Menzies near Aberfeldy in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle was formerly known as Weem Castle and is the ancestral seat of the Clan Menzies. Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Stuart Pretender to the throne, rested for two nights in the Castle on his way to the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Drive To Aberfeldy Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a morning drive North on the A826 road on ancestry visit to Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Drive To Trochry Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a morning road trip drive West on the old and very narrow Military road from Dunkeld on ancestry history visit to Trochry, Highland Perthshire. The Stewarts of Grandtully held the Barony of Strathbraan from the early 17th century and Meikle Trochry was mentioned in the Act of Parliament establishing the Barony. There are a few remains of Trochry Castle located in a private garden, with no public access.

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