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BALQUHIDDER (Gaelic, " the farm in the back-lying country ")

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 285 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAI-BAR
BALQUHIDDER (Gaelic, " the farm in the back-lying country ") , a
village
  and parish of Perthshire,
Scotland
 . Pop. of parish (1901) 605. The
village
  lies 2 m. W. of the station of the same name on the Caledonian railway from Callander to Oban, and 274 M. N.W. of Stirling. It is situated at the
east
  end of Loch Voil, a lake at the foot of the Braes of
Balquhidder
 . The Maclaurins acquired the
district
  as early as the 9th century and occupied it for several hundred years until ousted by the Macgregors, a neighbouring clan, who had repeatedly raided their lands, and in 1558 slew the
chief
  and many of his followers.
Balquhidder
  was the scene of some of the exploits of Rob Roy, who died there in 1734. His grave in the old kirkyard is marked by a stone ornamented with, rude carving, executed probably centuries before his time. Another ancient stone is said traditionally to cover the grave of
Angus
 , the Columban missionary, who was the first to carry on Christian
work
  in this
part
  of the Highlands.


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