Glenborrodale Castle

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Glenborrodale Castle, a modern mansion in Ardnamurchan parish, Argyllshire, near the N shore of Loch Sunart, 7 miles WSW of Salen. Its owner, John James Dalgleish, Esq. (b. 1836; suc. 1870), holds 55, 000 acres in the shire, valued at £5962 per annum.

Glas Maol, a summit of the Grampians, at the meeting-point of Glenisla, Kirkmichael, and Crathie parishes, in respectively Forfarshire, Perthshire, and Aberdeenshire. It has an altitude of 3502 feet above sea-level, and is crowned with a cairn at the meeting-point of the counties. Its eastern shoulder is traversed by a footpath leading up Glen Isla and down Glen Clunie to Castleton of Braemar.—Ord. Sur. , sh. 65, 1870.

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