- Inchlonaig
Infobox Scottish island
latitude=56.10
longitude=-4.60
GridReference=NS380934
celtic name=
norse name=
meaning of name= "Island of Yew Trees"
area=77 ha
area rank=163=
highest elevation= 62 m
Population=0
population rank=
main settlement=
island group=Loch Lomond
local authority=Argyll and Bute
references= [ [http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ Ordnance Survey] ] [cite web| url=http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst1587.html| title=Overview of Inchlonaig| publisher=Gazetteer for Scotland | accessdate=2007-08-24]Inchlonaig is an island in
Loch Lomond inScotland .Geography and geology
Inchlonaig is the most northerly of the larger islands in the Loch Lomond, just south of where it narrows into a
ribbon lake , and north ofInchconnachan .cite book| author=Wilson, Rev. John| title=The Gazetteer of Scotland| location=Edinburgh| date=1882| publisher=W. & A.K. Johnstone]History
Inchlonaig has traces of man dating back to 5000BC. Scattered across the island are Yew trees, which it is said, were first planted by King Robert in the fourteenth century, to supply bows for his archers, including before the
Battle of Bannockburn .cite web| url=http://www.loch-lomond.net/islands/inchlonaig.html| title=Loch Lomond Islands: Inchlonaig| accessdate=2007-08-24] cite book| author=Morton, H. V.| title=In Scotland Again| date=1933| publisher=Methuen| location=London| page=145] cite book| author=Worsley, Harry| title=Loch Lomond: The Loch, the Lairds and the Legends| isbn=978-1-898169-34-5| publisher=Lindsay Publications| location=Glasgow| date=1988]Strathcashel, a stronghold of the Dukes of Montrose was opposite Inchlonaig.
Rob Roy fixed the amount of money he was to extort from Clan Colquhoun here.At various times, the island has been a deer park, and a place of confinement for drunkards and the mentally ill.
In 1873, Sir James Colquhoun, the clan chief, and some ghillies drowned after going hunting here, and they are buried together at
Luss .The travel writer, H.V. Morton visited in the 1930s, and mentions:
:"Inchclonaig [sic] , the 'marsh isle' whose yew trees, it is said, were planted by Robert the Bruce for his archers."
A stone cottage is now used as a holiday home.
Footnotes
External links
* http://www.lochlomond-islands.com/pag48.html
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