A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Aultsigh, a burn on the boundary between Urquhart and Glenmoriston, in the united parish of Urquhart and Glenmoriston, Inverness-shire. Issuing from a lakelet on the lofty western shoulder of Mealfourvounie (2284 feet), it tumbles and leaps down a rocky channel to the base of a precipice nearly 1500 feet high; is screened in its progress by beetling cliffs and wooded acclivities; makes two beautiful falls, one about midway down its course, the other near its mouth, both under shades of thick foliage; and passes into Loch Ness at a point 2¾ miles NE of Invermoriston. A rocking-stone, about 20 feet in circuit, movable by two persons, is on the mountain shoulder SW of the burn. a memorable conflict between a party of the Macdonalds of Glengarry, and a party of the Mackenzies of Ross-shire, was fought on the burn in the early part of the 17th century, and is commemorated in a celebrated pibroch, ` The Raid of Kil-Christ. '
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a burn" (ADL Feature Type: "streams") |
| Administrative units: | Inverness Shire ScoCnty |
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