English / Map Form: Allt Dhùghaill
Gaelic Form: Allt Dhùghaill
Location: Lochailort
Post Town: Glenfinnan
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Allt Dhùghaill
Gaelic Form: Allt Dhùghaill
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This name was gathered as part of a local research project on the place-names of the Rough Bounds of Lochaber and was published in a booklet by SNH and AÀA. The Following quote appears in that booklet:
“Just past here are Coire Dhùghaill and Allt Dhùghaill which have a tradition associated with them. Dùghall or Dougall was the sixth Chief of Clan Ranald; he was assassinated in 1520 in Lochailort by a man who has been given various names: Ailean nan Corc, Ailean a’ Choirce or Aonghas nan Corc. Dougall was chased up Loch Ailort, and got out of the boat down at the shore at Polnish and took to the hill above to An Camas Driseach. Up by where Allt Dhùghaill runs down through Coire Dhùghaill he was caught and killed. In one version5 the killing was done with an arrow and it was not Aonghas nan Corc that did the deed, but he ordered one of his men to do it. In another version6 he was also shot with an arrow, but Ailean nan Corc fiished him off with his dirk.”
Gaelic in the Landscape: The Rough Bounds of Lochaber (Scottish Natural Heritage 2013): 22
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