Lochend

We (Cathleen, Cailean, Rula and I)  walked  up the forest road behind the house today - the first time we have done that together for a long time.

This is a view on the way down across the top end of Loch Riddon to Lochend.

Communities like Glendaruel don't just have one centre of population,  but a scattering of houses , some on their own and some in small groups and all of them named.  Often they cover a wide area - what we call "the Glen" is at least ten miles long and two broad with people spread throughout it.

Lochend consists of a couple of permanently  occupied homes and a couple of holiday lets.   Across the loch from it  the settlement of Stronafian has more than half a dozen residents but the house you can see on the right is actually Achnagarron, owned by a friend of ours.  

Many of these sites have been occupied for a very long time.   For example Feorlean (spelt Feorlin) where we now live and which is just below the spot at which I took this appears as one of those settlements on the Pont Map of the late sixteenth century.   My extra photo is a jpeg of it. 

Ardachuple , which I realised as I was writing this was burnt to the ground a year ago today, is further down  from this vantage point and almost on the shore.