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The Battle of the Shirts was fought nearby in July 1544 between the Macdonalds of Rannald and Clan Fraser of Lovat in the Great Glen, overlooking Loch Lochy. [3] The Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway once passed by Laggan. This line opened in 1896, with Invergarry railway station situated at North Laggan. The line closed to passengers in ...
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 ...
Corrieyairack Pass lies between Fort Augustus and Laggan in the Scottish highlands. The Corrieyairack Pass ( Scottish Gaelic – Màm Choire Ghearraig ) is a 770 m (2526 ft) high pass in the Scottish Highlands at grid reference NN417986 .
The glen contains the notable lochs of Loch Ness (Scotland's second largest), Loch Oich, and Loch Lochy, which are connected by the Caledonian Canal. The Great Glen opens to the south-west into the sea loch of Loch Linnhe. Ben Nevis, Britain's tallest mountain. Ben Nevis, the tallest peak in Britain, is located to the east of Fort William.
Map of the Great Glen Fault and other late Caledonian strike-slip faults in Scotland and northwestern Ireland. The Great Glen Fault is a strike-slip fault that runs through the Great Glen in Scotland. Occasional moderate tremors have been recorded over the past 150 years.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
The A82 then follows the eastern shore of Loch Lochy up to Laggan. The village has no clearly defined centre but broadly follows the course of the A82 over 1.2 miles (2 km), from the Laggan Locks on the Caledonian Canal to the swing bridge that separates the canal from Loch Oich. This bridge is close to the "Well of the Seven Heads" monument ...
Laggan (Lagan, Gaelic for 'little hollow') may refer to: Scotland. Laggan, Badenoch; Laggan, Great Glen (consisting of North Laggan and South Laggan) Laggan, Islay;