Castle Tioram is a great place to visit if you are doing a circuit of Ardnamurchan Peninsula. It is a somewhat eerie ruin that sits on a tidal island in Loch Moidart and dates from around the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Castle Tioram is the traditional seat of the Clann Raghnaill branch of Clan Donald.
If you have your own transport a visit to the Highlands of Scotland should always include a tour around Ardnamurchan Peninsula and a road trip to Ardnamurchan Point. It’s only about 52 miles to Ardnamurchan Point but if you don’t stop it will take you about 2.5 hours by car because the roads are small,
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Glen Roy is situated just north of Roy Bridge in the Highlands of Scotland. The glen is accessed from the A86 trunk road along quite a narrow and winding lane, but once there, the views are spectacular. Glen Roy is best known for the ancient geological formations known as the “Parallel Roads of Glen Roy”.
Glenfinnan is the site of the famous Glenfinnan Monument, built in 1815 to remember the Jacobite clansmen who fought and died for Prince Charles Edward Stuart. It was here on 19th August 1745 that the Prince’s Standard was raised leading to the final, and ultimately failed attempt to reinstate the Stuarts on the throne of
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