This is called Linne Fichead or the Pool of Twenty. There were twenty men drowned here at the one time. They were pursuing somebody. There are various stories. Whether they were redcoats or gaugers or something like that. They were misdirected on where to cross the river. They were drowned there. Whether there was ice on the river or what, I can't imagine.
Where To Find It
Just along here there's a grave. It's sometimes known as the witches grave. The story goes that the funeral cortege arrived from Glengarry. At this point the funeral was coming down the glen to Invermoriston. It was met by the people of Glenmoriston here and they had an argument about where she was to be buried, whether she was to be buried in Invermoriston or Glenmoriston. And they were going to have fight over this problem. And the laird who was there said "Let's not fight over it. We'll bury her right here!" So that's what happened and that's the stone.
Clach Na Caillich
One story says that she was a bad witch and they didn't want her in either cemetery and another story says she was a good woman and she was wanted in both cemeteries. I don't know when all this happend; at least 200 years ago I should imagine.
(In a later telling of the story, Pat recounted how the stone is oriented north/south rather than east/west as was normal. This was a sign of a witch's grave apparently).
Jamie MacEwan (Old Post Office Behind)
These posts, there was a footbridge across there, a forestry bridge. The forestry men used this bridge here to cross over to the plantation on the other side which is known as The Coilleag. There was no road on the other side at that time. Old MacEwan the forester he would send them, told them to "Haud awa up The Coilleag!" And they would cycle up here, and leave their bikes here, and they would cross the river and they would look after the forest across the river there. The bridge was washed away in the big flood of 1950.
