#dunkeld

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 21 April 2024

In this community garden in Dunkeld, Scotland, the Muscari latifolium (broad-leaved grape hyacinth) was creating a display. This perennial has a single leaf to each bulb, with deep blue-black flowers, topped by a crown of pale sterile flowers.

Jill Raggett

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Dunkeld, Perthshire

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The Hermitage, Craigvinean Forest, Perthshire, Scotland

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[virtualscotland]

A couple of weeks ago we visited the little town of Dunkeld in Perthshire in Scotland - it's a lovely little place and also home to a fantastic bakery by a former Great British Bakeoff contestant! 😂 Dunkeld is probably most famous for it's beautiful nature walks though, in particular The Hermitage walk which takes in the very impressive Black Linn waterfall! 😍 We managed to catch the last of the autumnal beauty before this week's snow came! 😂 Hope you enjoy!

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[scotianostra]

August 21st 1689 saw the Battle of Dunkeld when the newly formed Cameronians defended the town against 3,000 Highlanders.

Following the death of Bonnie Dundee a month earlier, command of the Jacobites had passed to Colonel Alexander Cannon as opposed to the veteran 60 year old Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, one of the most formidable Highland chiefs. 

Cameron felt insulted and left, taking some of his clan with him. With the Scottish privy council preparing to leave Scotland in the wake of an expected Jacobite onslaught, the council ordered the newly formed Cameronian regiment under the command of the 27 year old Lieutenant Colonel William Cleland to move north from Perth and to hold onto Dunkeld at all costs.

Cleland ordered his troops to take up defensive positions in the cathedral and the nearby mansion of the Marquess of Atholl. The Jacobites, outnumbering the Cameronians four to one, led by Colonel Cannon advanced in their traditional charge, a sharp trot, a discharge of muskets and then a wild gallop with the sword, the Highland charge, unfortunately in the narrow, winding streets there was no room for this type of tactic that succeeded at Killiecrankie, the Cameronian defenders repeatedly drove them back with pikes which proved to be excellent weapons at close quarters. 

Defence was hampered however, by attack from musket fire in nearby houses, and in retaliation the Cameronians sent out a party ‘ with blazing “fagots” on the ends of long pikes’ to set fire to the dry thatch which roofed the buildings, they burned every house in Dunkeld except three, in which some of their own troops were posted, many Jacobites who had barricaded themselves into houses were locked in and burned alive.

Thus, for sixteen hours the battle raged, as gradually the Cameronians were forced back and having exhausted their ammunition, the Cameronians are reported to have stripped lead from the roof of the Cathedral and the Atholl house, but at eleven o'clock that night depleted of energy and ammunition, the Highlanders decided to call it a day and withdrew, leaving 300 of their men dead or dying saying that ‘it could fight against men but was not fit to fight any more against devils’. Holes dating from the battle, caused by the strikes of musket balls, are still visible in the east gable of Dunkeld Cathedral.

William Cleland died heroically in the first hour of battle by taking one bullet in the liver and another in the head, before dragging himself out of sight so that his men would not see him so wounded; he lies buried in the nave of the Cathedral, beneath a simple stone bearing only his name.

The first Jacobite uprising in Scotland had effectively ended, though it continued in Ireland for a further two years.

The centre of Dunkeld you see today largely stems from the rebuilding of the town following its destruction in the battle.

[albagamefishing]

A cold day at @newtylesalmon today. Fire was welcomed by the non angler guest. She enjoyed a walk to the Birnam Oak which is a 15 minute walk from the fishing hut, through a lovely avenue of birch trees beside the river. . . . . #rivertay #salmonfishing #newtylesalmonfishing #albagamefishing #macbeth #birnamoak #dunkeld #perthshire #bigtreecountry #fatherandson (at River Tay) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr1JOmOtPFD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Black Linn by Stephen Brown

Via Flickr: Golden leaves above the Black Linn falls near Dunkeld. Amazing displays of colour in October.

[fotoflingscotland]

Canon Fire by FotoFling Scotland Via Flickr: Atholl Highlanders at Birnam Highland Games 2012 The Atholl Highlanders is a Scottish ceremonial infantry regiment. The regiment is not part of the British Army but is in the private employ of the Duke of Atholl, and based in Blair Atholl. First raising The regiment was raised in Perthshire by John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl as the 77th Regiment of Foot (or Atholl Highlanders, or Murray's Highlanders) in December 1777.The regiment was formed as a relief for other regiments serving in North America, and spent most of its existence in Ireland.[2] The terms upon which the regiment was raised stated that the men were to be employed for either three years or the duration of the war in America. In 1781, the original three-year term ended, and the men expected the regiment to be disbanded. However, the regiment was transported to England and marched to Portsmouth to be embarked for service in India. Upon learning of this, the men mutinied, and the embarkation orders were countermanded. The regiment was marched to Berwick, where it disbanded in 1783. Second raising More than 50 years later, in 1839, George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl, as Lord Glenlyon, resurrected the regiment as a bodyguard which he took to the Eglinton Tournament at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire. Three years later, in 1842, the regiment escorted Queen Victoria during her tour of Perthshire and, in 1844, when the Queen stayed as a guest of the Duke at Blair Castle, the regiment mounted the guard for the entire duration of her stay. In recognition of the service that the regiment provided during her two visits, the Queen announced that she would present the Atholl Highlanders with colours, thus giving the regiment official status. The regiment's first stand of colours was presented by Lady Glenlyon on behalf of the Queen in 1845. It received new colours in 1979 from Mrs David Butter, the wife of the Lord Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross. A third stand of colours was presented in 2006 by the Duchess of Atholl. Under the John Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl, the regiment regularly provided guards for royal visitors to Blair Castle (which was a convenient stopping point on the journey to Balmoral). The regiment also attended the Braemar Gathering, while an annual gathering was held in the first week in September in which the regiment paraded, then participated in various trials of strength and stamina. Following the First World War, parades of the regiment became fewer, although it did provide guards when the Crown Prince of Japan and King Faisal of Iraq visited Blair Castle in 1921 and 1933 respectively. After 1933, there was little activity, and it seemed the regiment would disappear into obscurity until, in 1966, it was reformed by the Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl, who made the decision to revive the regiment's annual parade. It was feared that the regiment would be disbanded following the 10th Duke's death in 1996, until his successor, John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, wrote to the estate trustees insisting that he would continue his traditional role. The 11th duke, although resident in South Africa, visited Blair Atholl almost every year to inspect the regiment's annual parade until his death. In 2006 it was decided to increase the strength of the regiment and twelve new members were admitted: all of them were required to achieve a reasonable standard of foot and arms drill. During the Year of Homecoming in 2009, when all of Scotland's clans took part in a parade in Edinburgh, the regiment paraded in the Scottish capital for the first time in nearly 30 years.

[ayushkejriwal]

Happiness is having an impromptu lunch by the loch with Mum. Dunkeld is beautful. #ayushkejriwal #scotland #dunkeld #nature #colours (at Dunkeld) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeWcBB3McTe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[scotlandsladies]

Princesses of Scotland + foreign marriages

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Friday 19 April 2024

In the shade of a woodland garden the Anemone blanda (winter windflower, Balkan anemone) were flowering. The flowers are an intense blue, but the species can produce shades of pink and white. This spreading perennial here contrasts with the silver evergreen foliage of Lamium maculatum 'Beacon Silver' (spotted deadnettle).

Jill Raggett

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Headstones in the grounds of Dunkeld Cathedral, Perthshire

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Had to share this @weheartit

Hermitage, Dunkeld, Scotland

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Dunkeld, by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

[scotianostra]

On March 20th 1141 King Malcolm IV was born, possibly in Forfar. Malcolm IV was crowned 27 May 1153 at Scone at age twelve. He was a pious young man and very interested in chivalry and warfare. He also had Anglo-Norman tastes which did not endear him to the Scottish people and he had to face a number of uprisings during his reign. He became known as Malcolm the Maiden partly because of his vow of celibacy. Malcolm held the earldom of Northumbria and paid homage to King Henry II of England for his lands there. In 1157 he surrendered his northern English counties in return for the earldom of Huntingdon. It was a bad deal for the Scottish king but he desperately wanted to be knighted by Henry II and perhaps feared a war. In 1159 Malcolm accompanied the English king to France and took part in the siege of Toulouse an act for which he was finally knighted. However upon returning home in 1160 the king had to face a revolt which ended with him subduing Galloway. He then turned his attention to Moray in the north and finally to the King of the Isles, Somerled in the west. It seems many of the Scottish nobles were irritated by his neglect of the kingdom and angered by his deference to the English king. Malcolm was only twenty-four when he died, apparently of natural causes, in 1165 and he left no heirs. He was buried in Dunfermline Abbey and was succeeded by his brother William. The pic shows detail from the charter of Malcolm IV, King of Scotland to Kelso Abbey and shows Malcolm sitting to the right of his Grandfather King David I. 

[albagamefishing]

Our American guest today a fishing guide from Montana cast an honest and beautiful line on the Tay today but the springers weren’t obliging. Guided by top man @cuillinrae . . . . #rivertay #salmonfishing #albagamefishing #orvisuk #dunkeld #newtylesalmonfishing #speycasting #atlanticsalmon #visionflyfishing #perthshire (at River Tay) https://www.instagram.com/p/CrtwNV2Nvb8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=