Lochearnhead (Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Loch Èireann) is a village in Perthshire on the A84 Stirling to Crianlarich road at the foot of Glen Ogle, 14 miles (23 kilometres) north of the Highland Boundary Fault.

Loch Earn is 317 feet (97 metres) above sea level, with the settlement running from its shores up to higher ground on the hills at the mouth of Glen Ogle.

The first evidence of people in Lochearnhead comes from Mesolithic arrowheads found in Glen Ogle by former local policeman Tom Gibbon, and his son Donald.

[2] A settled population is in evidence in the Neolithic period, from a burial chamber at Edinchip,[3] and from the cup-marked stones which lie between the Kendrum Burn and the Craggan Road,[4] in what is known locally as the Druid Field.

[8] This lends weight to the argument that the name Earn therefore comes from Eireann, in other words "the loch of the Irish".

Feudalism proved the backdrop for local history for several centuries, not least in land ownership patterns.

[12] By the time the Stewarts came to Ardvorlich in 1582,[13] the Reformed church, under the guidance of John Knox, had been adopted in Scotland for more than two decades.

[15] By 1837, the New Statistical Account tells us that in the area, "Gaelic is the language generally spoken, but it has been rather losing ground within the last forty years".

In less cynical times, people attuned to the supernatural were said to report green light emanating from it, or to hear the strains of fairy music coming from within.

Yet another legend has it that the 6th century holy man, Saint Blane, cursed the lands and the previous building said to have stood on the spot.

In accordance with this custom, Lady Margaret Stewart at Ardvorlich, pregnant at the time, gave hospitality to some travelling MacGregors.

Like many highland communities, until the coming of the military road, Lochearnhead consisted of little more than a scattered collection of cottages, crofts, and the more prosperous farms associated with the estates.

Before that, the area had been served by the much smaller and more primitive Lochearnhead Old Inn, which stood opposite where the village shop is now, and whose ruins were still in evidence until they were demolished in the 1980s, due to their dangerous condition.

One of the original drove routes south ran down Glen Ogle and along the northern side of Loch Earn to Crieff.

[26][27] A minute of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, dated 3 April 1714, sets aside monies for the founding of a school at Lochearnhead.

With the rise in Scottish tourism in Victorian times, the town became a popular destination from which tourists could enjoy the tranquility of Loch Earn.

The rockfall itself was a very minor affair, and has nothing to do with the many boulders visible above and below the line, which have been there for thousands of years, however in response to the local minister offering to clear it up, it was alleged by British Rail engineers that there was a great risk of a larger amount of material coming down.

The road was engulfed in mud, after unusually heavy and prolonged rain, trapping several motorists, and bringing the attention of the national and international media as the world debated climate change and "wild weather".

The old Lochearnhead Hotel, which was situated opposite the village green at the junction of the A84 and A85, was burned down in the early hours of November 5, 1982.

A kilometre along the South Loch Earn road is Edinample Castle,[33] built by 'Black' Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy in 1630.

Her short story "Void of Understanding" was broadcast as a BBC Radio Scotland production in the early 1990s.

The event attracts international competitors, who come to attempt to win the "Scottish Blackface Shearing Champion" title.

The original subway entrance to the station now backs onto a modern housing estate on the A84/A85 junction and is used as storage for camping gear etc.

A pathway through the housing estate to the junction provides foot access to the station with a small gate in the surrounding fenceline.

Recently, the main station buildings have benefited from further refurbishment and now a collection of Scandinavian style log cabins surround the platform to the north, additional cabins provide further accommodation on the platform and surrounding areas while improvements in water and drainage connections have allowed improved washroom facilities.

The site also includes a second shower and toilet block as well as a dedicated sick bay, drying room and stores.

Following this single track road brings one to an old railway bridge, where the cycle route can be followed south towards Callander or north towards Killin.

The glen is not especially attractive, and its lower half is afforested; interest is added by two of the most remarkable 'rock slope failures' in the Highlands, on its east side.

At the foot of Glen Ample, the entire hillside of Ben Our is the second largest landslip zone after Beinn Fhada in Kintail giving rise to a platy pattern of fractures well seen from Glenoglehead in low sun or thin snow; broken ground along the slopefoot supports native woodland.