Brae Roy Lodge

Glen Roy is virtually empty today, although one of the mainland's last Gaelicspeaking communities survived here until the 1950s/60s, despite clearances carried out by the Mackintoshes in the 19th century and later voluntary departures. Bohuntine, a small township of about five or six traditional croft houses, is the last survival of a collective farm created for crofters when the glen was cleared - a rare unspoilt group of vernacular buildings (some tin-roofed, some derelict, a few recently improved) which includes a barn with ventilation slits and various other outbuildings. Beyond Brae Roy Lodge, 19th century, a standard gabled shooting lodge, are Turret Bridge and Leckroy Bridge, 18th century, probably engineered by Caulfeild. Still operational, these single-spanned, hump-backed bridges contribute to the surviving character of this branch of the early military highway, winding through ever more lonely stretches of the Braeroy and Corrieyairack forests towards Dalwhinnie.

Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk