Strathglass

The A831 road runs southwest from the vicinity of Erchless Castle up the length of Strathglass and serves the village of Cannich which is the largest settlement within the valley.

In his later Report, the Bishop had described the region, unlike the Hebrides, as so abundant with trees that the local population lived in wattle and daub houses instead of dry stone and thatch crofts.

"[4] According to Odo Blundell, "When writing of Strathglass on a previous occasion, I mentioned that, 'from the Reformation to the beginning of the [19th-]century, the Catholics in the Aird and in Strathglass received no more support from the two chief families of the neighbourhood, namely, the Frasers and the Chisholms, than was to be expected from the heads of clans who looked upon all their clansmen, whatever might be their religion, as members of their own family.

Before his emigration to the Colony of North Carolina in 1773, Iain mac Mhurchaidh, a poet from Clan Macrae in Kintail, composed a poem bidding farewell to the people of Strathglass, whom he praised, according to Colin Chisholm, for, "their well known hospitality and convivial habits; the musical sweetness and modest demeanor of their matrons and maidens, uncontaminated by modern fashions and frivolities.

"[7] For these reasons, Odo Blundell commented ruefully in 1909 that the language, customs, and oral tradition of Strathglass were better preserved in Nova Scotia than at home.