Glen Cannich

[4] Until the Suppression of the Jesuits in the late 18th-century, the large Catholic population in Glen Cannich and the surrounding region was covertly looked after by underground priests of the Society of Jesus.

[7] According to Colin Chisholm and Dom Odo Blundell of Fort Augustus Abbey, the three priests' residence and secret Mass house was inside a cave known as Glaic na h'eirbhe,[8][9] lit.

[12][13] According to Monsignor Thomas Wynne, "It was in the nature of a summer sheiling, a command center for monitoring the traditional activities of cattle reivers; as such it combined a civilising role with the building up of a Catholic mission outside Cameron territory in a way which must have reassured Lochiel on both counts.

[18] This may mean that the natural cup stone had been brought to the cave from the ruins of a local church or monastery dating from before the Scottish Reformation, such as Clachan Comar or Beauly Priory.

Upon arrival, they were informed by the estate factor that their farms had all been secretly let to sheep farmers from the Scottish Lowlands and that all present and their families must leave Glen Cannich with no negotiation or appeal.

[26] Writing in 1883, Alexander Mackenzie explained the evicted population of the Glen had been solidly part of the upper middle class and further wrote, "To give the reader an idea of the class of men who occupied this district, it may be stated that of the descendants of those who lived in Glen Cannich, at one time thickly populated in the Strath, but now a perfect wilderness - there lived in the present generation, no less than three colonels, one major, three captains, three lieutenants, seven ensigns, one bishop, and fifteen priests.

"[29] Despite mockery of local concerns by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, rising waters caused by the Affric-Beauly hydro-electric power scheme following the Second World War ultimately led to still further depopulation.

Frs John and Charles Farquharson's Jesuit colleague, Alexander Cameron (1701-1746), who had shared the cave dwelling and apostolate to Clans Fraser and Chisholm and who Lord Lovat described in a letter to his elder brother, Donald Cameron of Lochiel, as having broken his health by doing the priestly work of ten men,[30] has been actively promoted since 2020 by the Knights of St Columba for canonization as a Roman Catholic saint and martyr.