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Glencoe

 
Geography: Glen·coe
[glenʹkō]

Valley in W Scotland, in the Highlands SE of Fort William, scene of a 1692 massacre of Jacobite Macdonald clansmen by soldiers of the Protestant William III.

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Glen Coe
[Scottish Gaelic comhann, narrow]

One of the most resonant names in the Highland imagination, a 10-mile long glen surrounding the River Coe in the western Highlands, in the north of the former (until 1974) *Argyllshire, south of Loch Leven, east of the town of Ballachulish. Although it was once known as the realm of the Cadineag, all previous folkloric associations were displaced by the slaughter of the MacDonalds here, 13 February 1792, at the hands of the Campbells who had been their house guests.

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  • John Prebble, Glencoe (London, 1966)
 
Glencoe (glĕnkō'), valley of the Coe River, Highland, W Scotland. It was the scene of the massacre of the Macdonald clan (Feb., 1692) by the Campbells, under the direction of John Campbell, 1st earl of Breadalbane, and John Dalrymple, 1st earl of Stair.


 
 

 

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