Kenmore, Scotland

Kenmore, in Perthshire, is is situated at the foot of Loch Tay, near the point where the river Tay leaves the loch. Taymouth Castle, once the seat of the Marquess of Breadalbane, stands near the base of Drummond Hill in a princely park through which flows the Tay. It was a stately four storeyed edifice with corner towers and a central pavilion, and was built in 1801 (the west wing being added in 1842) on the site of the mansion erected in 1580 for Sir Cohn Campbell of Glenorchy. The old house was called Balloch.

Two miles South West of Kenmore are the Falls of the Acharn, 80 ft. high. When Wordsworth and his sister visited them in 1803 the grotto at the cascade was fitted up to represent a hermits mossy cell. At the village of Fortingall, on the north side of Loch Tay, are the shell of a yew conjectured to be 3000 years old and the remains of a Roman camp. Glenlyon House was the home of Campbell of Glenlyon, chief agent in the massacre of Glencoe. At Garth, 2 1/2 miles North East, are the ruins of an ancient castle, said to have been a stronghold of Alexander Stewart, the Wolf of Badenoch (1343-1405), in close proximity to the more modern mansion built for Sir Donald Currie.

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