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Roderick Morison

In this interview with Roderick Morison of Kintail, he mentions the widespread deer forest stretching from Invermoriston to Glen Shiel

 

LETTERFEARN, GLENSHIEL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3. 1883.

Present.—
Sir KENNETH S. MACKENZIE, Bart., in the Chair.
DONALD CAMERON, Esq. of Lochiel, M.P.
C. FRASER-MACKINTOSH, Esq., M.P.
Sheriff NICOLSON, LL.D.
Professor MACKINNON, M.A.

Rev. RODERICK MORISON, Minister of the Parish of Kintail—examined.

31434. Mr Fraser-Mackintosh.—I believe you have taken a good deal of interest in connection with deer. Is it not a fact that from within about a mile of the Beauly Railway Station you can walk without putting a foot on anything but deer forest land till you reach the Cro of Kintail?—Yes.
31435. Practically from sea to sea?—Yes.
31436. Do you know it to be the case that there are also some fourteen miles of continuous deer forest land in Glen Cannich alone?—Yes, I have ridden all over it.
31437. Is it not the fact that the whole of the north side of Glen Affric is one vast deer forest extending also to the Cro of Kintail?—The farm of Lienessie comes into it.
31438. Are not the whole of Guisachan and its glens, except the mains or home farm on the estate, under deer?—I believe so.
31439. And it reaches also to the Cro of Kintail?—No, I think not.
31440. What is between?—Inchancrow and the farm of Knockfin, occupied by Mr Winans as a sheep farm.
31441. Is it the case that from Inver Moriston, the south side of Glen Moriston, is one unbroken deer forest, reaching to Kintail?—It does not reach to Kintail, but to the parish of Glenshiel.
31442. Is it not a fact that from within about a mile of Balmacaan in Glen Urquhart you can walk on forest ground till you reach Kintail?— I believe so.
31443. Is it not also the case that from Inver Garry House you can walk on forest land all the way down to the sea at Knoydart?—I think so. I may add that I have been told that from a short distance of Loch Broom you can walk on deer forest land until within a short distance of Perth.