In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Dalnaspidal like this:
Dalnaspidal (Gael. dail-an-spideal, 'field of the hospice'), a station on the Highland railway in Blair Athole parish, Perthshire, within 5 furlongs of the foot of Loch Garry, and 15¾ miles WNW of Blair Athole village. Near it is a shooting-lodge of the Duke of Athole; and, named after an ancient hospitium or small inn, it lies amid a wild, bleak, alpine tract, where numerous standing stones and cairns mark the graves of persons who fell in battle or perished in the snow. ...
A party of Cromwell's troops, encamping here, were attacked and worsted by the men of Athole and some of the Camerons of Lochiel; and here, on the night of 16 March 1746, Lord George Murray divided the force with which he proposed to take Blair Castle.
Dalnaspidal through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Dalnaspidal, in Perth and Kinross and Perthshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22368
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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