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Age of Clans

The Age of Clans explores Scotland in the post medieval period. Explore Jacobite battles at a Cathedral and a Fort, or read about trackways used to move cattle, horses and humans across the landscape. Alternatively, you can learn about remote Hebridean communities from local Gaelic tradition, and discover hidden gems in the northern Cairngorms.

Auchindrain Township - Loch Fyne, Inveraray, Argyll and Bute

Auchindrain is typical of medieval townships in Argyll. The surviving buildings have evolved from the 18th to the 20th century as the architecture was modernised. The early history of Auchindrain (Achadh an Droighinn, ‘Field of the Thorn-tree’) is obscure. In 1534 it was in the possession of Archibald MacAlasdair Maclver, a member of the Campbell family of Ballochyle (Cowal), whose future wife, Marion MacNaughton, received a liferent charter of the four merklands of Auchindrain from the 4th Earl of Argyll as part of her marriage settlement. The township was a multiple-tenancy farm with six tenants in 1752 and continued to be occupied as such until 1963 when the last tenant retired. It is now an open air museum run by the Auchindrain Trust.

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