Rob Roy’s Domain.

“The ghost of a red-haired man with preternaturally long arms - so long that he could garter his hose without stooping- must surely haunt the Inversnaid neighbourhood most closely than any other part of the region.  Rob Roy spent his early years in Glengyle and his last years in Balquhidder, but Inversnaid, with its crags and forests was his own particular domain.”

Nairne, C. (1961). The Trossachs and Rob Roy Country

“The second element of his name, ‘Roy’ is from Gaelic Ruadh, ‘red-haired’.”

Newton, M., Bho Chluaidh gu Calasraid - From the Clyde to Callander

The Cliffs & Cave.

“A recess in a grey cliff overlooking the loch between Inversnaid and Ben Lomond is pointed out as Rob Roy’s prison. Here he is supposed to have confined his captives. If they were recalcitrant, he had them lowered into the loch at the end of a rope - so the story goes. A mile north of Inversnaid is Rob Roy’s cave, a natural cavern near the water’s edge, at the foot of a precipitous cliff. There is a tradition, probably authentic, that Robert the Bruce sheltered here after the Battle of Dalfry in 1306, under the protection of a MacGregor chief”.

Nairne, C. (1961). The Trossachs and Rob Roy Country

The Garrison.

The Garrison Of Inversnaid was built in 1718 following the Jacobite uprising of 1715.

“The fort was really built because the duke of Montrose demanded it, to exclude Rob Roy from his homeland. In one sense it was a tribute to the Duke’s power. He was the only man to get a barracks built to advance his own personal interests. But in another it was an admission of failure. A great noble he might be, but instead of dealing with a problem on his doorstep he had had to turn to central government to do it for him.”

Stevenson, D. (2004). The hunt for Rob Roy: the man and the myths. 2nd ed.