Everything about Morvern totally explained
Not to be confused with Morven
Morvern is a peninsula in south west
Lochaber, on the west coast of
Scotland. The name is derived from the
Gaelic A' Mhorbhairn, the Sea-Gap. The highest point is the summit of the
Corbett Creach Bheinn which reaches 2,800 feet in elevation.
Morvern is approximately 250 square miles with a current population of about 320.
History
Morvern was formerly known as
Kinelvadon, which
William J. Watson takes to be from
Cineal Bhaodain, that's that lands of the Cenél Báetáin, a division of the
Cenél Loairn named after Báetán, a putative great-grandson of Loarn mac Eirc. The
Senchus fer n-Alban states that "Baotan has twenty houses".
The ruined
Ardtornish Castle was in the possession of
Somerled in the 12th century and then the
Lords of the Isles, whose ownership was recalled in a poem of the same name by
Sir Walter Scott.
Kinlochaline Castle was once the seat of the
MacInnes clan. It was largely destroyed by the army of
Oliver Cromwell and restored in
1890.
Before the
Highland clearances the population of Morvern was about 2500.
The history of the parish of Morvern in the nineteenth century has been detailed in Philip Gaskell's
Morvern Transformed.
Some residents of
St Kilda were relocated to
Lochaline, the main village of Morvern, when the island was evacuated in 1930.
Present Day
Ferries depart from Lochaline, at, to the
Isle of Mull. Rahoy has a deer farm supported by
Highlands and Islands Enterprise. The Morven Community Development Company, the local
development trust, was established in 1999. It aims to provide increased employment opportunities, particularly for the young, and to create a wind energy project.
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