Île Inveruglas

L'Île Inveruglas (en gaélique écossais : « Innis Inbhir Dhughlais ») est une petite île inhabitée dans le Loch Lomond. Elle se trouve au large du rivage à Inveruglas, en face d’Inversnaid, à l’extrémité nord du loch. Elle est en face de la centrale hydroélectrique du Loch Sloy. Le nom Inbhir Dhu(bh)ghlais signifie « embouchure du courant noir ». L’île d’Inveruglas est donc, littéralement, l’île à l’embouchure du ruisseau noir. L’île abrite les ruines d’un château qui était autrefois la maison des chefs du Clan MacFarlane, détruit au XVIIe siècle par les troupes de Têtes-Rondes d’Oliver Cromwell

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Inveruglas Isle

Inveruglas Isle (Scottish Gaelic: Innis Inbhir Dhughlais) is a small uninhabited island within Loch Lomond, and lies off the shore at Inveruglas opposite Inversnaid at the north end of the loch. It is opposite the Loch Sloy powerstation. The name Inbhir Dhu(bh)ghlais means "mouth of the black stream"; Inveruglas Isle is therefore, quite literally, the island at the mouth of the black stream. The island houses the ruins of a castle which was once home to the chiefs of the Clan MacFarlane, destroyed in the seventeenth century by Oliver Cromwell's Roundhead troops.[1]

Inveruglas

Inveruglas (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Dhubhghlais) is a hamlet on the west shore of Loch Lomond, fairly near the north end of the loch and is within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. It is situated on the A82 trunk road, connecting Glasgow to Inverness. It is within the historic county of Dunbartonshire, and since 1996 it has been part of the Argyll and Bute council area. Nearby isles include Inveruglas Isle and Wallace's Isle. Inversnaid is roughly opposite on the east shore, there is a pedestrian ferry. The Inveruglas Water flows into the loch at the hamlet, flowing down from Loch Sloy. The name of this watercourse is a curious back-formation, since Inveruglas means "the mouth of the Douglas". It may have acquired this name to differentiate it from the Douglas Water a few miles further south. Inveruglas Isle lies in Inveruglas Bay, an inlet of Loch Lomond.

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Wallace's Isle

Wallace's Isle is an island in Loch Lomond, Scotland. Wallace's Isle is a low, flat island in the mouth of Inveruglas Water, just south of Inveruglas and not far from Inveruglas Isle. It is covered with alder trees. The island may be named after the Scottish patriot William Wallace, who may have sought refuge on it.

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Inveruglas railway station

Inveruglas was a remote temporary private railway station near the hamlet of Inveruglas, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Opened in 1945 by the LNER, it was built in connection with the construction of the Sloy Hydro-Electric facility and was located on the Ardlui side of the Inveruglas Viaduct and recorded to be out of use by around 1948.

Creag-an-Arnain Viaduct

The Creag-an-Arnain Viaduct is a railway viaduct that carries the West Highland Line.