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Loch Shiel

Hidden behind the tree on the right is the Glenfinnan Monument which is covered in scaffolding at present - North of Loch Shiel, south from the main road, is the Glenfinnan Monument and visitor centre from the National Trust for Scotland who maintains the site to the memory of the Jacobite Uprising of 1745. The monument was erected in 1815 is a tribute to the clansmen who fought and died in the Jacobite cause. The Visitor Centre on the site houses a multilingual exhibition on ‘Glenfinnan and the ’45’. Interesting to know is that hundreds of Jacobite sympathisers still gather at the monument every year on the Saturday closest to the 19 August.

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Uploaded on May 21, 2016
Taken on May 11, 2016