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Friday, 21 January 2011

Bay of the Dead Men

Around us here at Evergreen there are some very interesting place names, no more so than Camus Mharbh Dhaoine which translates to Bay of the Dead Men! This beautiful little inlet is down by the memorial to Lady Jane Fraser (another interesting story) at Lower Foyers. How did it get this name which sounds like something out of the American 'Wild West'? Well, the story goes that that back in the 15thC the bride of one Gruer Mor from Invermoriston, was in Foyers collecting wedding presents when she was insulted by Lawrence Grant of Foyers. Gruer inflamed by this, sailed across the loch and took violent vengence on Grant and the people of Foyers. Grant was killed and Gruer seized Foyers. The place at which Grant was killed actually on the north side of Loch Ness, is called Ruigh Laurais which translates to Lawrence's Slope. Amazing to think really that despite the passage of hundreds of years the names have survived.

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