On Luss Straights. L Lomond [Loch Lomond]

Category

Library Item

Item no

24481

Title

On Luss Straights. L Lomond [Loch Lomond]

Description

A small rowing boat is moored to a small wooden jetty on the bank of the loch. Reeds & mature woodland surround the calm water.

Artist / maker

Valentine, James

Date

1865

Size

24.2 x 18.3 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Luss is a conservation village on the west shores of Loch Lomond.

Luss is an old, historical area. There is an 11th century Viking gravestone which inhabits the graveyard at Luss, this may be testament to the belief that the Vikings plundered the area and that some may have remained behind. In the 6th Century, Saint MacKessog of Ireland founded a monastery on Inchtavannach (the islands name at the time) and the present day church; The Church of St McKessog (which was built to commemorate the drowning of Sir James Colquhoun and four others who drowned in Lomond in 1873) honours this patron.

These days Luss is better known by the alternative name of Glendarroch, as the setting for this fictional village in the long-running Scottish drama 'Take the High Road'

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Landscape > Land > Woods and forests

Landscape > Water > Loch, lakes and ponds

Places > Scotland > Argyll and Bute

Places > United Kingdom > Scotland

Transport > Water > Boats

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