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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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Corryarrick (Gael. coire-eirigh, ` rising ravine '), a dreary mountain ridge on the mutual border of Boleskine and Laggan parishes, central Inverness-shire, 7 miles SSE of Fort Augustus. Parting Glenmore from Upper Strathspey, it culminates in Corryarrick Hill (2922 feet) and Carn Leac (2889), midway between which, at 2507 feet above the sea, Wade formed about 1735 his military road from the Bridge of Laggan to Fort Augustus ` This, ' says Hill Burton, ` the most truly Alpine road in the British dominions, has been left to decay, and large portions of it have been swept away by torrents, so that the zigzag lines by which the military engineer endeavoured to render the steep side of an abrupt mountain accessible to artillery, have been tumbled into heaps of rubbish like natural scaurs. ' See also H. Skrine's Three Successive Tours in the North of -England and Great Part of Scotland (Lond. 1795).
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a dreary mountain ridge" (ADL Feature Type: "ridges") |
| Administrative units: | Inverness Shire ScoCnty |
| Place names: | COIRE EIRIGH | CORRYARRICK |
| Place: | Corrieyairack |
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