Invermoriston, a hamlet in Urquhart and Glenmoriston parish, Inverness-shire, at the mouth of Glenmoriston, on the NW side of Loch Ness, 7 miles NNE of Fort Augustus. It has a post office (Glenmoriston), with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, an inn, and a public school. Invermoriston House is an old but modernised mansion, the seat of Ian Robert James Murray Grant, Esq. of Glenmoriston (b. 1860; suc. 1868), whose ancestor got a charter of the estate in 1509, and who holds 74, 646 acres in the shire, valued at £4955 per annum. It was at Invermoriston, in 1773, that Dr Johnson first conceived the thought of his tour to the Hebrides.Ord. Sur., sh. 73, 1878.
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