Clans, Castles and the Scottish Borders

An occasional blog by Alastair Cunningham

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Auld Wat of Harden

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Cattle graze peacefully in this picture I took last Sunday of Kirkhope Tower in the Ettrick Valley. But it was not always thus. Kirkhope was...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Can we book a haunted castle please!

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Sometimes people ask to spend a night in a haunted castle - prompting a thought as to whether, in this litigious age, they have any recourse...
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Sunday, July 13, 2008

Iona - pilgrimage site or holiday destination?

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Iona has an ancient and a sacred ring to it: burial place of Scottish kings; monastery founded by St Columba in 563; heart of the Celtic chu...
Monday, June 30, 2008

The Clans in Paris

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No, you're right. Edinburgh is indeed the setting for the The Gathering of the Clans in 2009, but last week I was exploring those place...
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Saturday, June 07, 2008

Culloden - Did it really change World History?

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The National Trust for Scotland is a conservative sort of organisation, not normally given to rash claims. And yet at the new Culloden Battl...
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