Letters

McIntyre lands

Letterbane
Letterbaine
Lettermore

https://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/m/macintyre/letterbainemacintyres.pdf

Homeland
The three-and-a-half merkland of Letterbaine borders directly onto Glenoe, and has three component parts.
Lettermore, “The Big Slope”, plunges down from Cruachan summit to The Falls of Cruachan by Loch Awe, encompassing today´s Cruachan dam. Letterbeag, “The Little Slope”, is the Beinn a´Bhuiridh limb of the mountain, which overlooks Kilchurn Castle and the entrance to Glenorchy. While Innischonan, (Innis Chonain on the map), is the small island at the fork of Loch Awe. Letters itself is close to the lochside in Letterbeag5
. Much of old Letterbaine is now protected as the Coille Leitire Site of Special Scientific Interest, containing some of the finest ancient oakwoods in Scotland. Letterbaine, like Glenoe, lies in the parish of Ardchattan, though the nearest parish kirk is that of Glenorchy.

Became very busy in the 1880s when the railway was being built.


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