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A small town on the west bank of Loch Ness, where a cairn near Ceannacroc Bridge marks the spot where in 1746, Roderick Mackenzie, one of Bonny Prince Charlie’s bodyguards was killed by English troops. Mackenzie bore a remarkable likeness to the prince, and said as he was dying ‘you have murdered your prince’. The soldiers, in their eagerness to get their hands on the £30,000 reward believed him, and the search was abandoned until the mistake was discovered. But, by that time the prince had escaped
The road through the glen is part of the route from Loch Ness to the northwest coast merging with the road from Invergarry. From Invermoriston through the glen is beautiful and well wooded, the road later emerges on to bare moors before joining with an old military road from Fort Augustus over the mountains through Inchnadamph Forest.
About thirteen miles west, the river is joined by the Doe flowing from the northwest and a few miles further on up the glen is Corriedoe cave, a hiding place used by Prince Charles Edward in the 1745 rebellion when he was guarded by the ‘Eight Men of Glenmoriston’.
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