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INVERLOCHY

Volume 12 · 142 words · 1860 Edition

or Innerlochry, a hamlet in the county of Inverness, on the E. shore of Loch Eil, 2 miles from Fort William. According to the local legends it stands on the site of a city, once the greatest in Scotland, and where King Achaim signed a treaty with Charlemagne. No vestiges of such a city are now to be traced. Indeed the only relic of the past is the huge quadrangular edifice, called Inverlochy Castle, which towers in solitary magnificence, and has survived all tradition respecting its origin. The building forms a court, and is provided at the angles with round towers, of the most massive proportions, the whole fabric covering a space of 1600 yards. Inverlochy was the scene of a victory gained, in February 1645, by the royalist troops, under the Marquis of Montrose, over those of the covenant under Argyll.