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Laggan (Gaelic: Lagan [1]) is a village in Badenoch, in the Highland region of Scotland. [2] It is beside the River Spey, about 10 km west of Newtonmore. The A86 road passes through the village and crosses the river on a nearby bridge. It is notable as being the region in Badenoch where the Scottish Gaelic language survived the longest. [1]
An estimated 4500–5000 cattle were in Badenoch in the 1770s. [11] In the mid-1750s, the first flood banks on the River Spey in Badenoch were built at Pitmain, [12] just southwest of the modern day edge of Kingussie. Famine struck Badenoch in the early 1770s and 1780s, the later was widespread across Scotland and even Europe.
The scheme for classifying buildings in Scotland is: Category A: "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic; or fine, little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type."
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; General ... Laggan, Badenoch; Laggan, Great Glen (consisting of North Laggan and ...
The Highland Folk Museum is a museum and an open-air visitor attraction in Newtonmore in Badenoch and Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom. It is owned by the Highland Council and administered by High Life Highland. It was founded in 1935 by Dr Isabel Frances Grant (1887–1983).
The single name Lochan na h-Earba is applied to two lochs to the south of Loch Laggan in Highland, Scotland, close to the historic boundary between Lochaber and Badenoch.It is thought that the two lochs once formed a single loch, but became separated by the build up alluvial deposits from the Moy Burn (Scottish Gaelic: Allt a' Mhaigh), which now joins the short watercourse that connects the ...
Macpherson, Alan G; An Old Highland Parish Register, Survivals of Clanship and Social Change in Laggan, Inverness-shire, 1755–1854, The Journal of the School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, Part Two, 1967. Macpherson, Alan G; Day´s March to Ruin: The Badenoch Men in the ‘Forty-Five, pub. Clan Macpherson Association, 1996.
Clan Macpherson House and Museum, Newtonmore, is situated at the junction of Perth Road, Laggan Road and Main Street. The museum opened in 1952, with the exhibition mainly containing items from the nearby Cluny Castle which had recently been sold. The displays in the museum were significantly reworked in 1984–1985 and in winter 2004–2005. [12]