This is a busy market town in Kinross-shire. It’s a great stop on any tours of Scotland. Just East of the town is Burleigh Castle. This is a fine tower house dating from about 1500. It has no roof but is otherwise quite complete. There is an angle tower, with...
Castle Island is not the largest on Loch Leven (St Serf’s is) but it is certainly the most famous, a distinction arising out of the island’s connection with Mary Queen of Scots. During the years 1567-8, she was imprisoned here, the unwilling guest of Lady...
The famous massacre of the ‘glen of weeping’ was carried out by a gang of 128 soldiers led by Campbell of Glenlyon; his victims were the Macdonalds of Glencoe, whose chief had delayed signing the oath of allegiance, required of all Highland chiefs, to William...