Why You'd be Crazy Not to Visit Kilmartin Glen
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- If you're looking for must see places to visit on a Scottish holiday or vacation, then Kilmartin Glen is has got to be one of the most astonishing places in Scottish history. Beautiful lochs and glens, pre-historic standing stones and cairns, Dunadd hilfort, canals, cleared highland villages and more
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As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.
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Could u do a video about Morag's Faery ie Glen in Dunoon. My Grandad has always wanted to visit it. We were in Dunoon in the summer but he wasn't able to go as his legs aren't the same he's 82
@@hibee2k11is that in the middle of the Island,up the Hill??
This is a cracking glen to visit. I first went there when i was tracing the path of the Knights Templar ( see the gravestones in Kilmartin chapel ) when they were forced to flee France. I was amazed by the neolithic and iron age sites in the glen itself. I have since camped in the area many times, and have studied as much as i can. I would highly recomend a visit to Kilmartin. I did have a rather nice lunch in the local inn. This is a must see glen for anyone interested in history.
Is that the crypt wíth the Knights carved into slabstones!
@@Sandwich13455 Yes. The reason i was trying to track the movement of the Templars that fled the persecution in France, was because i had found hints that the so called bagage train and camp followers that joined the fighting at the end of the battle of Bannockburn, and hastened the retreat of the English army, may have infact been a body of Knights Templar. This always made more sense to me, than a group of poorly armed peasants chasing away , what was the finest fighting force in Europe at the time. It also made sense that the Knights Templar would need to find a safe haven, and Scotland was also excomunicated at that time, due to De Bruce commiting murder on holy ground. Scotland would have been the ideal safe haven. Fairly easy to sail to from France.
@@wulfcogle9988 Scotland had many Templar groups , who were already here at the time of there trumped up charges off heresy , some maybe did come here , who knows. Any place with the name Temple in it usually has a connection to them , the story of them at Bannockburn is a nice idea but if they did fight they would have been in ordinary clothes and not the Templar surcoats . I think the best theory of where french ones went was to America but we might never know , they have kept a lot of people busy trying to find out .
I've been exploring and researching too mate and I am looking forward to visiting kilmartin.
I have explored an area that includes the knights templar, Robert the Bruce, William Wallace and so on.
Feel free to give me a message and here's hoping we can share our knowledge.
I'm in love with the History of my country, you bring it alive and the format of telling a story, if only my old history teacher did this. Thanks for all your work Bruce. I learn something from every episode. History is often written by the victors, you balance this. Thanks mate
My pleasure!
There is something special in Kilmartin Glen, something difiicult to put in words. It touches your soul, it makes you feel peaceful, And yes, you don't want to leave, just stay. Or come back. Again and again.
Thank you for this video about Kilmartin Glen. My best place in Scotland.
My great-great grandmother, Isabelle Rowan was born in Kilmarten area. We will be seeing it next trip. So glad to see this here now.
Thank you for this great video. I lived in kilmichael glen as a teenager but I never appreciated what an amazing area it was. Now I love the history and the beautiful scenery. This has been an absolute pleasure to watch. Thanks again.
Ah, yes, Kilmory Oib. The plaque as you approach gives the sanitised version. "The people lived here for at least 350 years, then they left."
I worked and lived in Argyll and have been back several times to delve into the past on display, still only scratched the surface. Fantastic area.
This is quite magnificently filmed! excellent commentary too. And I heartily agree that Kilmartin Glen is an absolutely must-visit location. A magical place.
Beautifully and warmly narrated and delivered in a way that makes the face easy to absorb. A great flow of enthusiasm, reverence and knowledge. Thank you
Our family originated from Kilmartin . When they emigrated to Canada, these homesteaders also came to call their thriving new southwestern Ontario settlement: Kilmartin . To serve as a reminder of the deep roots they still held back home. The original settlement is long gone; but Kilmartin church still remains as the rural community's heart.
Wonder what happened to the indigenous folk in southwestern Ontario ... oh wait we found some of their children killed and buried under an orphanage...
@@tariq_sharif I tell all my Native friends we were still in Ireland before all that and my Irish native ancestors were treated the same way by the Royalists. Didn't natives also kill natives. We need to stop the hate and remember we are all Earthlings and Earth is our home and a majority of us never give back only take from her. Do you ever ask your self how many natives would be left if a different type of government had taken over. As bad as the Royalists were they didn't kill all our ancestors and we need to seek fairness for the future generations.
@@JohnnyAtlas Goodness what a convulted apologetic for the barbarism of the British against the Irish (ever learn of the how many starved in the famines, as a direct result of their actions, the manner in which they indigenoues were dispossesed of their land, and to work it, whilst the food was shipped to the mainland ?
Yes, i agree, reconciliation is to be desired and the descendants of those royalists, slave owners etc etc have noting to be ashamed about. But the continued privilege they enjoy even today at the expense of all indigenous people needs to be called out every time ... until then NO fairness can be achived today or in future
@@tariq_sharif yes I have and I know full well of the crimes but I believe everyone born in Canada should have all the same rights no matter who their parents are. We can't blame the children for the sins of their fathers. Not all Europeans or non-indigenous are responsible for crimes against the indigenous tribes of the Americas. We all have had our history and heritage crimes against us by one invader or religious cult. I was brought up Catholic, did I have a choice...no I didn't. I was born with no indigenous parents did I have a choice.. no I didn't. What is your endgame, do all non-indigenous have to leave the Americas, pay more taxes or put natives in charge. What needs to happen for you to feel justice, peace in your heart and not judge our children.
Thanks so much for this video. It's probably the closest I'll ever get to seeing the lands of my highlander forebears who lived their lives in the shadow of Dunadd before coming to Australia.
This is the best stream I’ve seen on this area. You make Scottish history very interesting to me. Thank you.
Wow, thank you!
Spectacular footage. I'll be there in 37 days. Thanks for the tour de force of an amazing landscape brimming with neolithic treasures. I truly enjoyed this. It made me want to go throw rocks at my own drone footage. Thank You!!
Wohoo
Bruce Fummey is a treasure. I never knew who he was until he started telling the stories of Scotland. Our ancestors were not knuckle draggers. There was a thriving culture and economy. Scotland and Ireland are in sight of each other through the islands. We're cousins. I'd really like to see you cover Iona, because of Neil Gaiman - In Relig Odhráin. In the US for ages there were native bones used in the foundations of every church built. But since Neil wrote a poem that is more famous than those of us lesser poets.
I was there in the mid 90's and was blown away. I have told everybody to go.
I stay in the central belt of Scotland, all of this amazing stuff is just a drive away. Scottish people don’t understand how lucky we are not to only have such beautiful lands but beautiful history ( apart from all the blood ,gutts and wars 🗡 🤣 and that )
I love your videos, thanks for making history a wee bit more exciting x
You're welcome
Oh wow!❤ I love the prehistoric. Scotland has so much to add to the picture of our ancestors. They were trading, traveling, interacting with so many communities all over. Many of those other places have artifacts that originated from Scotland, but where they lived most have yet to be found. The islands of Scotland are only now starting to unearth their tales as well as some mainland site’s. But the truth of Scotland staying true through out history (the bell beakers, Roman’s, Vikings). All these peoples from far off always seem to have interactions with the ancient Scott’s but none seem to have pushed in. I see a respect and reverence for the peoples of old in the archeological evidence that spread out over most of Europe. Imagine all the stories that have yet to be found again and you can’t help but be excited 😊
What a beautiful and magic place. In Wiltshire we get used to standing stones and burial mounds which litter the landscape here, but each time I stand and reflect by one I realise how wonderful they are and how lucky we are to still have them.
Time and circumstances have made it clear that my decades old desire to visit Scotland is not to be, so I'm thankful for videos like this that allow me to tele-visit the places I'll never get to see. Thank you, Bruce for another great video!
Ah Faith ye've got me nearly greetin. I have to keep making these now
This video is a masterpiece for the ages!
Ah thanks
This guy is an Awesome story teller and why history must not be destroyed.
Love this! My 5th G Grandparents from Kilmartin.Visited in 2018 with my Daughters. Magical place !!!!!
Beautiful almost a beautiful as New Zealand 🇳🇿 ❤️ Thanks De Bruce this is awesome No country can beat Scotland 🏴 for the History
Much .ess volcanoy
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and Scotland is as uniquely beautiful as any other country.
My dad was from kilmarnock, Ayrshire. A proud Scottish nationalist. He would have loved your videos, mate. It turns out we're descended from Niall Noígíallach
That's WODERFUL Drone filming!!!
Big thanks to Liam McNamara
I was rained out in chamonix many moons ago so on return, a mate n I took off on the cycles and we went up the west coast.
Kilmartin glen took a whole day to get through, gettin off and visiting, getting on and repeat..
Glorious weather and grand experience...welcome home indeed.
Then it was a race to get to oban and campsite. Fantastic glen...
Well done Bruce...
Tremendous. I'm a Kilmartin on my mother's side. Visited the village and church as a kid. I remember it was a long journey from Sunderland!
Have you ever made a video on Ewen mcpherson and the english hunting him for 9 years after culloden. The macpherson museum is a must visit for the full story told by the tour guide.
OMG…can’t believe they used the ancient stones in the roads….Wonderful Vlog …Our bonnie Scotland is a treasure trove of history indeed….
Chillingly gorgeous. Thank you. 💜
Glad you enjoyed it!
You made me feel like I was right there with you. I appreciate that.
Yay
Wow...we really are so lucky to have this history set in stone❤
This is so beautiful Bruce. Wow you have totally nailed it . Well done laddie master class in how to sell your history and culture, flawless. Brings a tear to the eye seeing how beautiful the landscapes are and so much history in such a small area again Wow. Slán abhaile
This guy is a treasure
My favourite place in the UK. 👀👍
Hell Bruce, We are back in a covid lockdown here in NSW Australia and and im greatful for you channel.
I was in killmartin Glen years ago and it was one of my favourite places to visit. It was kind of like a pilgrimage to visit Dunadd fort to place my foot where kings before had placed there's whilst also seeing the majestic standing stones and pict carvings.
Kill martin Glen, Callanish,outer hebrides, Glencoe and the isle of skye are my favourite places in Scotland and only can say a certain sense of Magic is still there.
Thanks Bruce Fummey for keeping us entertained and filling us with great historical content!
You are a legend and can't get enough of your video
Yay
Awesome .
Even more reasons to visit the land of my ancestors.
Stunningly beautiful.
I'll get there one day.
Thanks Bruce.
I've only just discovered your videos and I'm an instant fan boy. After spending hours in the garden watching your videos I'm burnt to a crisp but very content.
I hope someone sees sense and gets you on TV, you sir are our next national treasure!
😂 You need Factor 32 for these bad boys
@@ScotlandHistoryTours 😆 I'm still watching, now with a dram and the fire pit on to top up the lobster tan.
I'll confess to being rather chuffed you replied.
That's one extraordinary production, written with soul, crafted to bring bring thousands of years of human work to a sensible understanding, or at least damn close to it. Liam McNamara's skilled piloting ties it perfectly together, somehow bridging the depth of time in a manner that only low-level aerial work can do. All growing better on fourth or sixth viewing, and worth it! Thank you so much!
I know, right?
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Damn right you do! Really great work - you've outdone yourself - again!
Watched this one again and enjoyed it again just as much. Definitely a must see.
Brilliant
Next holiday destination sorted. Thank you.
Wonderful!
Was there just before Easter
Great to see a bird's-eye view of precisely where we walked
Thanks, Bruce and Team!
WOW! Most excellent!
Thanks again Bruce.
You're welcome
It's amazing so much of these convenient piles of building material survived, what with all the walls and roads to be constructed. Makes you wonder if they were always respected or indeed what might have been lost.
I haven’t been there since the summer of 1999. I am glad to see it is still as beautiful as I remember. Nice aerial shots, they weren’t really an option back then.
I went there yesterday on my motorbike and had an incredible day. What an amazing part of an amazing country! Cheers Bruce!
Yay
Beautiful Scotland wish to visit this places on your channel watching from England
You should!
Was down that way last weekend, had no clue those things were there, more reason to go back. What a place!
Indeed
Top marks, Bruce. Brilliant!
Many thanks!
Just a wee message Bruce, I went here today and followed all the places you went in this video. I took a picture of my son Conall who's 4 on the footprint up on the Dunadd fort. Anyway we had a great day with me pretending to him he's King Conall of Dal Riata, well I've went down a hole with it when we've came home and Ive had to inform him he's actually King Conall II as there was another in around 558 AD. Inspiring new generations with videos youve made on you tube. Sláinte.
🤣🤣🤣Brilliant
You should do episodes of must see places in Scotland, it goes hand in hand with your content anyway, you tell the history of the country and show us the scenery. Top man, New video in morning while having my coffee 👌
I thought that's what I was doing😂
That drone is a marvel
It is indeed. Thanks to Liam
This is definitely an amazing landscape with equally amazing sites and structures. I consider myself fortunate to have had the chance to see it all first hand and would highly advise anybody traveling to Scotland to check it out.
I wish I knew of this place when I travelled through Scotland in the year 1 BC (1 year Before Children).
its such a great pleasure to listen to your voice. like getting lured into timetravelling.
Wow, thank you!
This would be an amazing site to visit and spend a day
Dead right
That was beautiful, thank you.
Our pleasure!
Kilmartin is magical, I have been once. I met elves at twilight. Not to be forgotten...
Ah those twilight elves, they're always causin' bother
I remember visiting Dunchraigaig cairn, over 40 years ago when I had first moved to Argyll. it was a gloomy winters afternoon, made more gloomy by the trees surounding the cairn. I startled a sheep, which was hidden in the most southerly side kist, obviously seeking warmth. It scared the living daylights out of me, when it errupted out of its' hidey-hole. Luckily I was wearing brown trousers, that day.
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Terrific video Bruce, great wee talk and outstanding drone shots. Especially liked the view of the castle built by the church rector. Whenever I see stone circles and cairns I feel that it would be great to go out into the wilds and just build a wee bothy using what stones were lying around if I were younger.
Thanks for another guid one!
Cheers...Freddie
Not only informative, but lyrical. And how!
Looks like this glen beat you to your own act... truly incredible
the act of telling scotlands history
I have many such places where i live , 2 of the most notable places are Nappers Temple / Druids Temple Burial Site and The Cochno Stone both of which have been covered over .
Another cracking wee "story". Excellent drone work too...and a bonnie day for it.
To think, that from Dunadd, Scot and Pict would unite and form a nation that still leaves an impression around the world. From that wee footprint in stone, would arise a people whose descedants would influence so many lands and peoples to great heights in every aspect of life.
What those stones have witnessed over the eons, Great Tragedies and Great Successes, and still like lonely sentinals, they keep watch.
Beautiful county! Excellently done drone footage, thanks Bruce for the historically tour of an amazing location. 💖
You are very welcome
I've just recently been on a road trip around the West Coast of Scotland. I wish I'd known about this before I set off. Absolutely stunning narration and dronework. Best instant history tour I've yet seen on the Tube. Keep them coming, Bruce. I will make a point of visiting this place.
Glad it was helpful!
I love your videos for both the beauty and history.
I thank you for your passion, your due diligence and for being my brother. Beautifully presented.
Thank you for your excellent educational video which is well researched and presented. I have driven through Kilmartin several times and didn't know any of this, next time I shall stop and see for myself.
I was there in 2018 but I need to go back again!
wow i am absolutely going here . the Ariel shots in this video were superb as was your commentary thank u
Glad you liked it
I loved the warrior graves in Kilmartin graveyard. Beautiful place. I like the giant standing stone en route to oban.
Another great issue well done Bruce
Thank you kindly
what a rich tapestry of history! the cists are so cool they kind of look like glen pimples
the deer drawings on the rocks are so cool. I wonder if people purposefully made them to be placed and why they felt the need. maybe it was like a wish like ":i hope there are a lot of deer on your way, dear'
Gight castle near Fyvie. ..if you can find it or have read the old poem of it's history is a forgotten gem
A lovely video of a wonderful historic place. I love the Stone age & Bronze age.
As to Lithic....Lithic means quite simply, stone these are the three ages of lithic from earliest to before the Bronze age.
Paleolithic... Old stone...Mesolithic...Middle stone....Neolithic, New stone....Bronze age :)
Thank you for the explanation . I never knew the meaning of the different ages . I wish school had been so interesting .
@@rickmoore3730 Glad I could have been of help to you :)
Iron age came after the Bronze age. When man started to use iron.
The Iron age is when the first druids was in the UK & Boudicca fought against the Romans :)
All the best :) \m/
Ah Bruce you have great delivery and your videos are fantastic. I have to let you know I have known about this part of Argyll, for over thirty years. it's my special quiet place and once upon a time l lived nearby. The ancient kingdom of Dalriada strongly linked to Antrim, a place where the sky is always in conversation with the landscape. And you are right it is a special place with so many interesting stories. 😀
Aye, true
Really interesting point about how big of a sacrifice it would've been to give up this valuable farmland.
This is such a beautiful video, such beautiful landscapes and you are such a great story teller ! Thank you !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Don’t forget Dunadd…. Then go to Dunino in Fife to see a similar stoop and footprint.
I wish I could come here and spend enough time to understand it better. Thank you for bringing it to more people who didn’t know that it existed.
Really great info and shots on a place I know very well.I got married at temple wood years ago.The arial view is amazing.Nice one
Now that's a great place to get married
Bruce, I came upon your well planned and executed videos just while back but since then I've followed them religiously - maistly fur the banter! I must say, this is such a beautiful piece you've done here. The drone footage whilst narrated is quite something. Well played sir, for a Scotsman living in London - I do yearn for the heartland when I watch you. It's a unique thing you're doing and I don't think anyone else could do it better. Dave
Wow, thanks
Fascinating glen, with much to see, particularly Neolithic, Iron Age, Dark Age and some mediaeval. Sadly, tempting as it sounds, the Templar theory is what's known locally as "mince". Fun mince, though.
I really enjoy your videos me & my 10 yrs old son watch them. TY 👍 😊
Aye, it's a bugger trying not to swear😜
@@ScotlandHistoryTours lol you should hear me sometimes but even wee Rob jnr gets your jokes "sometimes" 😂
this is your best yet, thank you.
Ah thank you
You also have the Templar Knights Chapel at Kilmory AND the Irish Scots at Dunadd.
There's just too much to fit in
Looking forward to seeing this channel blow up! Great channel with great content.
I appreciate that!
Mmmmm, 5000yo cream n jeely scones...aàrrrrggghh drool drool. Dinny eat them aw at once Bruce. Still loving the braw graft m8. The best black, Scottish historian I've seen this millennium. Looking forward ( as always ) Tae the next one. Thanks.
😜
‘The similar cairns’ in Ireland became thought of as the homes to faeries, places surrounded by superstition and were places to be avoided. So there appears to be a disconnect between modern Irish and the people that built them. And the Irish cycles talk about ‘tuatha de dannan’ mystical people or maybe gods - perhaps faeries are gods when they are taken really seriously. Tuatha appears to mean in Irish Gaelic people of an area, (with ‘a’ meaning pluralisation), and in Scots Gaelic tuath means ‘north’. (Dannan appears to have been added later to differentiate between the Christian god and those other ones.) Genetically, modern Irish have links to the Iberian peninsula and therefore, so do Scots. So, to me, it does not feel like a huge leap to say that the cairns were built by people that were already here by the time The Celts arrived, (it pretty much says this in the cycles, as far as I can tell), who appear to be remembered by the inheritors of the land as faeries, gods or somewhat unearthly beings.
Perhaps new people ended the use of them - maybe this was the change.
I love your humor
Thanks
Smashing video.
I love this place you can spend days here and the cup and ring marked stones.....
Afterwards go south to Tarbert ,a place of great history by its self.
Love your videos . I live in kilmichael glen next door as it were. There are also cup and ring marks and standing stones there as well achnabreac where your tour started is probably closer to kilmichael than kilmartin but then again . I’m probably slightly biased in that regard. I love your history talks and don’t know how I missed this one.keep up the good work , I was also brought up in Pitlochry , so I had the best of both worlds. Saor Alba
unmentioned but the final still shot at the end looks towards the Corryvreckan whirlpool, which itself could be a video, its stunning. Also really cool to see where i grew up talked about so well thank you Bruce!
You're welcome
You should visit the Callanish Stones and the several others on Lewis. There are broches there black houses and peat cutting. The Callanish Stones are a couple thousand years older than Stonehenge.
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My uncle Roddy worked at Kilmartin Glen museum. Great place and very beautiful as always!
Thank you so much for the videos and knowledge you share!
You're welcome