The Sow of Atholl information

The Sow of Atholl (Scottish Gaelic: Meall an Dobharchain) is a Scottish hill which is situated 27 kilometres west-northwest of the town of Blair Atholl...

sites in the Scottish Highlands. It was first discovered around a spring at an altitude of 740 metres (2,430 ft) on the slopes of the Sow of Atholl, but has...

sprig of a specific plant, that is used to identify a member of a particular Scottish clan. They are usually worn affixed to the bonnet behind the Scottish...

Dobharchain (The Sow of Atholl) , Scottish hill west-northwest of the town of Blair Atholl in Perth and Kinross Meall Dubh, mountain in the Northwest Highlands...

the SMC, in the 1953 edition of Munro's Tables. Corbetts are the next category down from the Munros and Munro Tops in terms of height (i.e. below the...

including the two already mentioned Munros and the Corbett The Sow of Atholl. The summit of the mountain is marked by a large cairn and wind shelter. The highlight...

This is a list of Marilyn hills and mountains in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and surrounding islands and sea stacks. Marilyns are defined...

"all the Comyns and their whole abettors stood by Balliol; but the earls of Mar and Atholl, with the whole strength of their power, cleaved, in the firm...

Empress of France in 1928, RMS Duchess of Atholl in 1929, and RMS Empress of Australia in 1935. In 1936, The Daily Telegraph of London reported that the population...

chronicle written by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie in the 1570s describes a banquet prepared by the Earl of Atholl for James V to impress a Papal ambassador...

subsequently took Inverness Castle using a "sow". The king later imprisoned Ferquhard, along with Kenneth Mackenzie, 8th of Kintail, in Edinburgh Castle. Two years...

powerful families, typified by the dukes of Argyll, Atholl, Buccleuch, and Sutherland, owned enormous sections of Scotland and had extensive influence on...

the publication of works such as Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", whose concepts influence much of modern socio-economic thought, and sowed the seeds...

self-help projects among the respectable working class. A handful of powerful families, typified by the dukes of Argyll, Atholl, Buccleuch, and Sutherland...

Drilling and sowing and crop rotation were introduced. The introduction of the potato to Scotland in 1739 greatly improved the diet of the peasantry. Enclosures...

[page needed] A handful of powerful families, typified by the dukes of Argyll, Atholl, Buccleuch, and Sutherland, owned enormous sections of Scotland and had...

panel of St Margaret had been presented by the Duke of Atholl to King George V in 1927, in gratitude for the King's support in establishing the Scottish...

and whipped, have his ears cropped, one side of his nose slit, and his face branded with "SS" (for "sower of sedition"), to be imprisoned, and be degraded...