Battle Of Stalc, Appin
Battle Site (15th Century)
Site Name Battle Of Stalc, Appin
Classification Battle Site (15th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Laggan Na Falla, Battle Of Stalcaire Monument
Canmore ID 23304
Site Number NM94NW 8
NGR NM 92708 47268
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23304
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Lismore And Appin (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM94NW 8 9270 4726.
Outside, and immediately behind the churchyard of the Scottish Episcopal Church of St Cross at Portnacrois is Laggan na Falla (the hollow of treachery) where the heaviest fighting of the battle of Stalc took place in 1468.
On a rocky eminence in the graveyard, there is a granite monolith inscribed "1488. Above this spot was fought the bloody battle of Stalc, in which many hundreds fell, when the Stewarts and the Maclarens, their allies, in defence of Dugald, chief of Appin, son of Sir John Stewart, Lord of Lorn and Innermeath, defeated the combined forces of the Macdougalls and the Macfarlanes" - probably assisted by the Campbells.
M E M Donaldson 1926.
The monument (to be supplied by field surveyor) is at NM 9270 4726. Laggan na Falla was not confirmed.
Visited by OS (DWR) 17 November 1971.
