KnapdalePeople

Major General Sir Archibald Campbell of Inverneill has become one of my favourite Knapdale characters. I have devoted a very large part o...

On the south western side of Loch Caolisport, there is a ruined Chapel and behind that, a cave. This is known as "St Columba's Cav...

We could not find this ancient burial ground. It is the one failure I most regret. Sorry.

Because a branch of my ancestors left Ormsary Estate for Canada (in 1853), I have a special interest in this place on the east side of Loch ...

Like Leac Na Baan, Arichonan was built at the top of a hill, presumably because you could see any approaching ship coming up the Loch. The ...

This is an impressive castle which dominates the sea approaches to Loch Sween. It was known as the "Key to Knapdale", and at Knapd...

On the way to Castle Sween, south from Leac Na Baan, there was a gate with a pair of coats of arms. They interested me because they were s...

Whenever you see some ancient pot described as a 'ritual' pot, you know that really, the archaeologist has no idea what it was actua...

Leac Na Baan, now a Bed and Breakfast, was in the past a farm/township, part of the Arichonan Estate. In 1798 and 1802, when Niel Malcolm o...

First, a closeup of Dunadd's "cup": South of Kilmartin Valley, and of the Crinan Canal there is a township (now a B&B, Whi...

Dunadd is a rocky outcrop a few miles north of Lochgilphead. There is little left of its past now. But back in the day, when the Scottish ...

Carnasserie Castle sits on a hill a couple of kilometers north of Kilmartin Village. It was built for the 5th Earl of Argyll about 1565, ...

Luck was with us in Kilmartin, because we happened upon a Gala put on by the local people. There was a lot going on, of course, including a...

Inside the Church there are a number of plaques on the walls, some remembering the Malcolms of Poltalloch who purchased Duntroon Castle in t...

The church at Kilmartin is host to a Poltalloch enclosure with a display of medieval gravestones. Notice the mention of the Loch Awe school ...

Kilmartin Glen is one of the most important archaeological sites in Europe. Super-ancient items are scattered from one end to the other of ...

Across the road from the Alpaca herd was a Standing Stone. The entire Kilmartin Glen is festooned with such stones (and cairns). This parti...

No, we did not go over to Oban this trip. Instead, we concentrated on Kilmartin Glen, Lochgilphead, and south of the Crinan Canal. This me...

After Jura, we found lodgings in the Ford Hotel, 12 miles north of Lochgilphead. Ford lies at the south end of Loch Awe , a long narrow lak...

It becomes obvious, as one travels around these islands, that in the old times, the West Highlands was a sea faring area. Today, aside fro...