Corrimony
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Corrimony is a remote village in Glenurquhart in Inverness-shire
, Scottish Highlands
and is in the Scottish
council area of Highland.
Corrimony is famous for Mony's Stone and the chambered cairn
, part of the Clava group
of cairns, which date from the 3rd century BC. The cairn is surrounded by 11 standing stones.
The nearby Corrimony Falls
is a waterfall of Scotland
.
Inverness-shire
The County of Inverness or Inverness-shire was a general purpose county of Scotland, with the burgh of Inverness as the county town, until 1975, when, under the Local Government Act 1973, the county area was divided between the two-tier Highland region and the unitary Western Isles. The Highland...
, Scottish Highlands
Scottish Highlands
The Highlands is an historic region of Scotland. The area is sometimes referred to as the "Scottish Highlands". It was culturally distinguishable from the Lowlands from the later Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands...
and is in the Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
council area of Highland.
Corrimony is famous for Mony's Stone and the chambered cairn
Chambered cairn
A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a cairn of stones inside which a sizeable chamber was constructed. Some chambered cairns are also passage-graves....
, part of the Clava group
Clava cairn
The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of 3 cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness in Scotland. There are about 50 cairns of this type in an area round about Inverness...
of cairns, which date from the 3rd century BC. The cairn is surrounded by 11 standing stones.
The nearby Corrimony Falls
Corrimony Falls
Corrimony Falls is a Scottish waterfall near Corrimony in Glenurquhart, Highland council area. It is a local tourist atraction in the spring and summer.-References:...
is a waterfall of Scotland
Waterfalls of Scotland
Much of Scotland is mountainous, western areas of the Highlands enjoy a wet climate. The more steeply plunging west coast highland rivers in particular are home to countless waterfalls.-Names of falls:...
.
See also
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- Charles KennedyCharles KennedyCharles Peter Kennedy is a British Liberal Democrat politician, who led the Liberal Democrats from 9 August 1999 until 7 January 2006 and is currently a Member of Parliament for the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency....
MP - Simon Fraser of Balnain
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- BalnainBalnainBalnain is a small village in Glenurquhart, Scotland, about 5 miles west of Drumnadrochit. It is mostly dependent on tourism, forestry and farming. The first buildings were created in the 1880s and minor expansions occurred in the 1900s and 1960s....