Lochan-Eilean, in Strathspey, is spoken of as ' useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in their goods and children here, and it is easily defended. Publications - Page 297by Spalding Club, Aberdeen - 1847Full view - About this book
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 862 pages
...Loch Cannor, the crannoge of Lochau-Eilean, in Strathspey, is spoken of as ' useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in their goods and children here, ana it is easily defended.' Canoes hollowed out of the trunks of oaks have been found as well beside... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 854 pages
...Loch Cannor, the crannoge of Lochau-Eilean, in Strathspey, is spoken of as ' useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in...goods and children here, and it is easily defended.' Canoes hollowed out of the trunks of oaks have been found as well beside the Scotch, as beside the... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 858 pages
...Loch Cannor, the crannoge of Lochan-Eilean, in Strathspey, is spoken of as ' useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in...goods and children here, and it is easily defended.' Canoes hollowed out of the trunks of oaks have been found as well beside the Scotch, as beside the... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 pages
...seventeenth century, the crannoge of Lochan-Eilean, in Strathspey, is spoken of as ' useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in...goods and children here, and it is easily defended.' Although there is every probability that many of those sites were occupied from the earliest times,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 264 pages
...seventeenth century, the crannoge of Lochan-Eilean, in Strathspey, is spoken of as ' useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in...goods and children here, and it is easily defended.' Although there is every probability that many of those sites were occupied from the earliest times,... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 892 pages
...loch Cannor, the crannogc of Lochan-Eileen, in Strathspey, is spoken of as " useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in...goods and children here, and it is easily defended." Canoes hollowed out of the trunks of oaks have been found as well beside the Scotch, as beside the... | |
| Robert Scott Fittis - Genealogy - 1881 - 580 pages
...seventeenth century, the crannoge of Loch-an-Eilean, in Strathspey, is described as " useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in...goods and children here, and it is easily defended." Such insular retreats were known in some parts of Eastern Europe in the days of Herodotus : and they... | |
| Robert Munro - Dwellings - 1882 - 382 pages
...Castle Island, 10 feet." " On the 16th June 1859 there was fished up from the bottom of the in times of troubles or wars, for the people put in their goods and children here, and it is easily defended.' Canoes (Fig. 1) Fig. 1. — Canoe found in Loch Canmor. hollowed out of the trunks of oaks have been... | |
| William Gregory Wood-Martin - Ireland - 1886 - 402 pages
...crannog of Lochan-Eilean, in Strathspey, is described as "useful to the country in times of trouble or wars, for the people put in their goods and children here, and it is easily defended." Artificial islands formed of wood or stone, often identical with those a short time previously ascertained... | |
| William Gregory Wood-Martin - Ireland - 1886 - 416 pages
...crannog of Lochan-Eilean, in Strathspey, is described as " useful to the country in times of trouble or wars, for the people put in their goods and children here, and it is easily defended." Artificial islands formed of wood or stone, often identical with those a short time previously ascertained... | |
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