Glenkinglass, a glen in Ardchattan parish, Argyllshire, traversed by the Kinglass, a capital salmon and trout stream, which, rising on the northern skirt of Bennan-Aighfan, at an altitude of 2200 feet above sea-level, curves 12½ miles east-south-eastward, south-westward, and west-by-northward, till it falls into Loch Etive, at a point 5 miles NE by N of Bunawe. So winding is the glen that little of it can be seen from Loch Etive; Inverkinglass, at its foot, had once an iron smelting furnace, some vestiges of which still exist. The N side of the glen is bleak and rocky, but the S yields excellent pasture. A pine forest covered a large portion of its area, but was cut down towards the middle of last century to serve as fuel for the iron furnace.Ord. Sur., sh 45, 1876.
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