26-777: Bernera Barracks is in Glenelg in the West Highlands of Scotland . The barracks were constructed between 1717 and 1723 as part of a campaign by the British government to subdue the local population which had risen up in arms in the Jacobite Rising of 1715 , and which would do so again in 1745 . The barracks were designed by Andrews Jelfe and John Lambertus Romer of the Board of Ordnance , or possibly their predecessor James Smith , and built by Sir Patrick Strachan. Some of
52-684: A height of over 1,280 feet (390 m) before dropping into Glen Moriston . It appears to have crossed the River Moriston somewhere near the confluence of the River Doe with the Moriston, and then taken a route somewhat to the north of the present day A887 road and A87 road north of Loch Cluanie . The road descended Glen Shiel to Ratagan before rising over the Bealach Ratagain (Ratagan Pass) and into Glen More and thence to
78-553: A population of 283. In 2011 Highland Council estimated that the community of Glenelg and Arnisdale had a population of 291. Glenelg is located south of Loch Alsh , by the fiercely tidal Kyle Rhea narrows, where the Isle of Skye is closest to the mainland. Between November and February, the only access to Glenelg is by road over the 339-metre (1,112 ft) Mam Ratagan – known loosely as "the Bealach" (pass) – from Shiel Bridge on
104-494: Is Category B listed. The ferry is a tourist attraction in itself. Another attraction in recent years are a pair of resident sea eagles During the summer, sightings are almost daily as they fish by the ferry crossing trying to feed their young. Glenelg attracts tourists to the remains of two of the best-preserved brochs ( Dun Telve and Dun Troddan ) on mainland Scotland, located in Glen Beag, about three miles further along
130-518: Is found elsewhere, such as in Elgin (Gaelic Eilginn ) and is generally accepted as being a kenning for Ireland. Other such names include Banavie , Banff , Atholl , Lochearn , Auldearn , and show Gaelic settlers using the same migrant naming practice as gives us placenames such as New Caledonia and New York. The name is unusual in that it is a palindrome . Glenelg was officially twinned with Glenelg, Mars , on 20 October 2012. A palindromic name
156-437: Is navigable by ships as far as Barisdale Bay . Small boats can reach Kinloch Hourn, but these upper reaches are dependent on tide and subject to strong currents. All of the loch is subject to fierce and erratic winds. There is no road access to most of the shoreline. Apart from a few isolated cottages, the only community is Arnisdale , with a population of around 30. Kinloch Hourn is 36 km (22 miles) on single track road from
182-417: Is steep-sided, with Beinn Sgritheall to the north and Ladhar Bheinn rising from the southern shore. The sea floor has been shaped by glaciation into five progressively deeper basins with relatively shallow sills; combined with the narrow and sheltered aspect of the loch and the high local rainfall, these result in an unusually wide variation of salinity and sea habitats over the length of the loch. The loch
208-645: The 1745 uprising and not needed after the Highland Clearances , the Bernera Barracks are now ruined. The war memorial in Glenelg was erected in 1920 to a design by Sir Robert Lorimer . A person from Glenelg is known in Gaelic as an Eilgeach . Between March and October, a small vehicle ferry connects to Kylerhea on Skye across the powerful currents of the narrows. The ferry used on
234-612: The A87 near Invergarry . Local economy is small scale. There is a fish farm near the mouth of the loch; a few local shell fishing boats; a few jobs dependent on the surrounding shooting estates and some local income from tourism. A small passenger ferry/excursion boat which ran from Arnisdale to other parts of the loch, and provided access to the north shores of Knoydart , ceased business in 2011. 57°7′30″N 5°35′37″W / 57.12500°N 5.59361°W / 57.12500; -5.59361 This Highland location article
260-703: The Scottish Lowlands . Between March and October, there is the option to cross the Kyle Rhea strait by ferry (see below). Following the Jacobite rising of 1715 , Glenelg was chosen along with Fort George, Fort Augustus and Fort William as one of four sites in the Highlands for a military barracks. These were completed in 1725 and a military road soon linked Glenelg to the rest of General George Wade 's road network. Ultimately unsuccessful in preventing
286-477: The Sound of Sleat and are known for their fine silvery shell sand beaches. Sandaig can be accessed by foot from the main Glenelg to Arnisdale Road. Loch Hourn Loch Hourn ( Scottish Gaelic : Loch Shubhairne ) is a sea loch which separates the peninsulas of Glenelg to the north and Knoydart to the south, on the west coast of Scotland. Loch Hourn runs inland from the Sound of Sleat , opposite
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#1732786703608312-564: The slipway and the crew manually turn the deck, which is built on a turntable, for cars and passengers to embark and disembark. When the Ballachulish Bridge opened in 1975, it became the relief vessel for Corran , Kylesku and Kessock near Inverness. The ferry service was suspended in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic but restarted on 1 May 2021. The Glenelg Ferry slipway was designed by Thomas Telford in 1818 and
338-548: The Apostolic Church. Glenelg Amateur Football Club is known to locals by their nickname of "The Duffers", were re-formed in 2011 by Grant MacLeod. In 2019, Glenelg FC won the Clan Donald Cup, their first trophy in over 43 years. Although the name nowadays refers to the whole district, it is likely that it originally referred only to the glen containing the brochs. The specific element of the name ( Eilg )
364-556: The Sandaig Lighthouse. The Sandaig Light formerly on Little Sandaig was built in 1910 by Charles Alexander Stevenson (cousin of the novelist Robert Louis Stevenson ) for the Northern Lighthouse Board . In 2002 the tower was restored and moved to the community-owned Glenelg Ferry Terminal where it is now a feature. The eponymous Sandaig Islands are a small group of islets just off the point in
390-501: The barracks. [REDACTED] Media related to Bernera Barracks at Wikimedia Commons Glenelg, Highland Glenelg ( Scottish Gaelic : Glinn Eilg , also Gleann Eilg ) is a scattered community area and civil parish in the Lochalsh area of Highland in western Scotland. The main village is called Kirkton of Glenelg and commonly referred to as "Glenelg". There is a smaller hamlet less than one mile (two kilometres) to
416-406: The broch) are now in ruins, a state which they appear to have entered shortly after the withdrawal of troops in 1797. The barracks is protected as a scheduled monument . Major William Caulfeild engineered the military road from Fort Augustus to Bernera Barracks in 1755 but Thomas Telford ’s commissioners remade it in the 1820s. It initially headed west through Inchnacardoch Forest climbing to
442-515: The coast, the road continues southwards, following the shore of Loch Hourn , where it terminates at Corran; Loch Hourn is separated from Glen Beag by Beinn a' Chapuill and Beinn Sgritheall . Its proximity to Skye meant that Glenelg was formerly of more strategic importance and had a significantly larger population. It appears on the relevant map of the first atlas of Scotland, published by Joan Blaeu in Amsterdam in 1662, for instance. Cattle from
468-646: The crossing since 1982 is the MV ; Glenachulish , the last hand-operated steel turntable ferry in operation in the world. Built in 1969 for the Ballachulish crossing by the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company in Troon, it is now operated by a local community-interest company. The ferry can transport six cars plus foot passengers on the open deck. It is unusual in that the ferry ties up alongside
494-589: The interior was remodelled in 1863 and again in 1929. There is an 18th-century bird-cage bellcote to the west gable. It is now united with other churches across Lochalsh area as part of the South West Ross Church of Scotland. Within the area also meets Glenelg Free Church of Scotland (part of Glenelg and Inverinate Free Church), which uses the Glenelg Parish Church for their evening service; and Glenelg Christian Fellowship, part of
520-485: The island of Skye , for 22 km (c. 14 miles) to the head of the loch at Kinloch Hourn . At the entrance, its confluence with the Sound of Sleat, it is 5 km (3 miles) wide, becoming less than 2 km wide for much of its length, with successive narrows in the upper reaches and reducing to a 300-metre-wide basin at the head. Sometimes described as the most fjord-like of the sea lochs of northwest Scotland, it
546-445: The main road from Inverness to Skye. From the summit of Mam Ratagan the road runs gently into Glenelg down Glen More ( Gleann Mhòr , "big valley"), which is otherwise isolated from Loch Duich by Beinn a Chuirn , and from Loch Alsh by Glas Beinn . There is a second valley, approximately parallel to Glen More and to the south known as Glen Beag (Gleann Beag , "small valley"), separated from Glen More by Beinn a' Chaonich . On reaching
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#1732786703608572-437: The outer islands were taken to Uig in the north of Skye to join with those reared on Skye and other nearby islands, driven south to the village of Kylerhea, and, tied together in dozens, nose ring to tail and guided by a rowing boat, swum the 534 metres to the mainland before being herded to market along the drovers' road through Glen Beag, on to Kinlochhourn and then to the markets at Stirling and Falkirk and elsewhere in
598-762: The road from the main Glenelg settlement. The community's only pub is the Glenelg Inn . This stands on the site of the earlier Glenelg Hotel, a hotel with marble flooring which caught fire in 1946 and had to be demolished. There is also a village shop, an organic market garden/croft and associated cafe, in Glen Beag. There is also a seasonal cafe in the Glenelg Village Hall in Kirkton and local businesses offering local services including bicycle hire and repair. Glenelg Parish Church of Scotland has an 18th-century core. It underwent repairs from 1821 to 1830,
624-419: The south by the jetty and skirting Glenelg Bay, known as Quarry. There are several other clusters of houses scattered over Glenelg including up Glen Beag and Glen More and on the road leading to the ferry at Kyle Rhea. The parish covers a large area including Knoydart , North Morar and the ferry port of Mallaig . At the 2001 census it had a population of 1,507. The smaller "settlement zone" around Kirkton had
650-540: The stone used in the construction was taken from Dun Telve and Dun Troddan , nearby iron-age brochs . The Government troops who were garrisoned here during the Jacobite uprisings were also intended to control the crossing to Skye . Following the 1715 rising, Glenelg was chosen along with Fort George, Fort Augustus and Fort William as one of four sites in the Highlands for military barracks. The barracks (and indeed
676-474: Was chosen by NASA because the rover Curiosity would visit the site twice. The author Gavin Maxwell 's retreat at Sandaig (which he called Camusfeàrna , "the bay of the alders", in his book Ring of Bright Water ) is within the Glenelg community area around six miles (ten kilometres) south of Kirkton of Glenelg. The house had previously been a smallholding and home for the part-time lighthouse keeper of
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