Glentarroch

PDuring the days of transhumance farming Glentarroch was the Summer shieling ground for the settlement at Clury. Eventually it became grazing for sheep and was let to a shepherd. The house in the photograph was built in 1902, at a cost of £240 tby the Countess of Seafield for the incoming tennant, John McIntosh who complained that the old house was not fit for habitation. By 1905 he was unable to pay the annual rental and was removed. The house stands isolated on the Moor but is surrounded by the ruins of buildings, the largest contains a half buried bedstead, another a fragment of an iron cooking pot.These are probably renments of the shielings, sheep fanks and piles of stones from field clearance. A lonely place, the loneliness heightened by the anxious crying of the nesting oystercatchers disturbed by our visit.

On the walk back across the Moor to the road we noted the first field gentians of the summer. See extra.