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Tucked inside a valley at the
eastern end of Loch Voil, this is the final
resting place of Rob Roy MacGregor who died
peacefully at the age of 63 in 1734. The
cattle-rustling outlaw is buried in the local
churchyard alongside his wife Mary and two of his
sons, Coll and Robert. Near his grave are the
remains of a chapel where the Clan MacGregor met
in 1589 to discuss the murder of the king’s
forester, John Drummond, and swore an oath not to
reveal the identity of his killers because they
were members of their own clan.
North are the steep-sided hills called the Braes
of Balquhidder while a path leading to
Inverlochlarig passes the site of a farmhouse
where Rob Roy died. Sir Walter Scott turned Rob
into a national hero while Robert Louis Stevenson
set part of his novel ‘Kidnapped’ in Balquhidder.
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