... of Cairnholy , in Dumfries and Galloway in South-west Scotland. Both tombs built to honour the ancestors of the Neolithic farming ... Corbred II surnamed Galdus and described in The History of Scotland by George Buchanan (1506 - 1582) which records that he began his reign ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jul 3 2017 - 10:19am
... Gaelic: An t-Eilean Sgitheanach). The remains of Dunscaith Castle now stand on the site where her fortress was once said to be located. ... training as a warrior with Sqáthach in the land of Alba (Scotland) before marrying Emer. Forgall’s expectation was that Cú Chulainn ...
Douglas MacQueen - Feb 21 2017 - 8:25pm - 0 comments
... after the granting of a Royal Charter by King James VI of Scotland. and was opened for worship in October 1591. As such it was the the first church built in Scotland after the Reformation in the 16th century. As the population grew and ...
Douglas MacQueen - Sep 11 2018 - 3:14pm
... National (note I didn’t say nationalist) renaissance in Scotland is the manner in which news is now disseminated. Faith in and the ... low. No one, even some Unionists, now rate the BBC in Scotland and paradoxically it is only the SNP holding back from an all time ...
Myghal Map Serpren - May 16 2015 - 11:02pm - 0 comments
... after the granting of a Royal Charter by King James VI of Scotland and was opened for worship in October 1591. As such it was the the first church built in Scotland after the Reformation in the 16th century. As the population grew and ...
Douglas MacQueen - Sep 11 2018 - 3:21pm
... two stone circles. It is located north of Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Ràthais, Fìobha, Alba). Taking the A92 ... site at Balfarg Henge was excavated in 1977-78 by Historic Scotland with later work undertaken between 1983-85 that uncovered a further ...
Anonymous (not verified) - Aug 6 2021 - 11:37am
... with England, a union that has resulted in the domination of Scotland by its larger neighbour. A series of opinion polls, conducted months ... There is now clear and a widely felt unhappiness in Scotland with the clear failings of the undemocratic nature of the United ...
Douglas MacQueen - Aug 21 2020 - 2:47pm
... built a model of Dùn Deardail Celtic Iron Age hillfort in Scotland. It was commissioned by the Fort William-based Nevis Landscape ... have lived near the fort for some of the time they stayed in Scotland. Dùn Deardail is one of a number of vitrified forts in ...
Douglas MacQueen - Sep 7 2018 - 10:46am
... if the drum beat is the force of the resistance which saved Scotland from Roman occupation and preserved Celtic culture north of ... The band are based in Glasgow and all members were born in Scotland. Taking a break from their gruelling North America travel schedule the ...
Emmett McIntyre - Aug 12 2015 - 8:58pm
... example of an Iron Age settlement that is unique to northern Scotland. However, for centuries it remained hidden under a large massive, ... Orkney, the group of islands situated off the north coast of Scotland. One day in 1929, Orcadian poet and antiquarian Robert Rendall ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jan 12 2019 - 6:37pm