Nearby Loch Lubnaig was one of the many places where he outwitted forces sent from Stirling Castle to capture him. Killiecrankie : battlesite near Pitlochry. Glen Dochart on the main Callander-Oban road, below Ben More: the site of Auchinchisallen, the farmhouse where Rob lived under Campbell protection, after being declared an outlaw. The remains of a house are barely visible from the main road. Sheriffmuir : a battle site in the Ochils, near Stirling.
Rob took part on the Jacobite side in the uprising. The bare and open slopes of the place of battle are easily reached by minor roads from Stirling. There is a memorial cairn. Glen Shiel : Rob took part in a skirmish between government forces and Jacobites including Spanish troops in the uprising. Eilean Donan Castle : This famously picturesque castle on the road to Skye was totally destroyed by naval gunfire after occupation by a force of Spanish soldiers in the short-lived Jacobite rebellion.
The castle lay in ruins until restoration between and The castle itself is very ruinous but what is said to be the only surviving beheading pit in Scotland can still be seen. It is visible from the main road. Burn o Vat, near Ballate r: This spectacular rock formation on Deeside draws many visitors each year and is popularly associated as a hiding place of Rob Roy, though well away from his usual haunts.
In fact, it was used by Patrick Gilroy Macgregor, perhaps a distant kinsman, who was leader of a notorious band who plundered all over Deeside until this particular Macgregor was caught and hanged in Edinburgh in All right — I agree.
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Extra Stuff. Flowers of Scotland — where will we see your likes in glens? After his principal creditor, James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose seized his lands, Rob Roy warred with the duke until , when Rob Roy was forced to surrender. Later imprisoned, he was finally pardoned in He died in his house at Inverlochlarig Beg, Balquhidder, on 28 December Daniel Defoe wrote a fictionalized account of his life in called Highland Rogue , making Rob Roy a legend in his own lifetime, and influencing George I to issue a pardon for his crimes just as he was about to be transported to the colonies.
The publication of Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott in , further added to his fame and fleshed out his biography. Adaptations of his story have also been told in film, most notably Rob Roy , directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Glengyle House , on the shore of Loch Katrine , dates back to the early 18th century , with a porch dated to , and is built on the site of the 17th century stone cottage in which Rob Roy is said to have been born.
Since the s, the Category B-listed building had been in the hands of successive water authorities, but was identified as surplus to requirements and put up for auction in November , despite objections from the Scottish National Party. Rob Roy MacGregor is buried in the kirk yard of Balquhidder along with his wife and sons. At least his gravestone is there. Some locals suggest that he was buried elsewhere for safety, to ensure that he lay undisturbed by rival clans.
Following his annus horribilis of , Rob Roy was accused of fraudulent bankruptcy and in he was to be found trailing in the wake of the rebel army of the deposed Stuarts at Sheriffmuir, waiting patiently for any booty that he could lay his hands on.
The end came when he had to surrender to the Duke of Atholl in , but he managed to escape, probably through the protection of the Duke of Argyll. However, Rob Roy was eventually caught and imprisoned again. On the point of being transported to Barbados in , he received a pardon from King George I and decided, as he was not getting any younger he was now in his mid-fifties that it was time to settle down.
This he did and lived the rest of his life as a peaceful, law-abiding citizen… well, apart from the odd duel or two.
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