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Name that Corrie!

Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Caberfeidh » Sun Sep 12, 2021 8:21 am

jmarkb wrote:The number 1719 is also significant at the foot of this corrie.


Corrie Caol, above the site of the Battle of Glen Shiel, 1719A.D. where Spanish forces attempted to back Jacobite forces but were driven off by combined sea and land forces, during which the castle of Eilean Donan was ruined by cannon fire from British Royal Navy ships, not being rebuilt until the early 20th Century. Old lead musket balls still turn up when drainage ditches are dug in the area.
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby jmarkb » Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:12 am

Caberfeidh wrote:Corrie Caol, above the site of the Battle of Glen Shiel


Close - right battle, wrong corrie!
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby kaye.cantlay » Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:00 pm

Am Fraoch Choire
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby jmarkb » Mon Sep 13, 2021 8:16 am

kaye.cantlay wrote:Am Fraoch Choire


Yes, that's the one! :clap:
The hill in cloud is Creag nan Damh, hill number 7 on the South Shiel Ridge, with the slopes of Sgurr Beag (not a Munro or a Top, and often traversed around) on the left.
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby kaye.cantlay » Mon Sep 13, 2021 9:22 pm

It doesn't seem to have a name, but in the interests of keeping things going.....
Where am I looking down onto/ into?
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby BoyVertiginous » Tue Sep 14, 2021 12:20 pm

kaye.cantlay wrote:It doesn't seem to have a name, but in the interests of keeping things going.....
Where am I looking down onto/ into?

Lochan Bealach Cornaidh (Quinag).
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby kaye.cantlay » Tue Sep 14, 2021 7:55 pm

Oh indeed - last week in the mist.
What a great walk!
Very easy I'm afraid.
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby BoyVertiginous » Wed Sep 15, 2021 10:02 am

kaye.cantlay wrote:Oh indeed - last week in the mist.
What a great walk!
Very easy I'm afraid.

Thanks, k.c ... no sunshine (band) then :wink:

Another misty one...the named corrie here is to the bottom right of the pic and beyond, it's name shall suffice (there is another, non-typical, name on the map for the upper corrie):
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Caberfeidh » Wed Sep 15, 2021 11:21 am

Corrie Loch Kander?
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby BoyVertiginous » Wed Sep 15, 2021 3:18 pm

Caberfeidh wrote:Corrie Loch Kander?

No, much farther West (the corrie is East-facing)
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Pointless Parasite » Wed Sep 15, 2021 6:29 pm

Corrie nan Lochan?
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby BoyVertiginous » Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:01 pm

Pointless Parasite wrote:Corrie nan Lochan?

Nay. Shall narrow it down a bit ... to Lochaber.
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby BoyVertiginous » Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:16 pm

BoyVertiginous wrote:
Pointless Parasite wrote:Corrie nan Lochan?

Nay. Shall narrow it down a bit ... to Lochaber.

And The Mamores.
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby BoyVertiginous » Tue Sep 21, 2021 1:58 pm

BoyVertiginous wrote:
BoyVertiginous wrote:
Pointless Parasite wrote:Corrie nan Lochan?

Nay. Shall narrow it down a bit ... to Lochaber.

And The Mamores.

Here's another, a bit further round...there are three named corries in this pic, any one of them will do
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby BoyVertiginous » Wed Sep 22, 2021 1:22 pm

BoyVertiginous wrote:Nay. Shall narrow it down a bit ... to LOCHABER.

BoyVertiginous wrote:And THE MAMORES.

Here's another corrie, a bit further round the Mamores from the last one...there are three named corries in this pic, any one of them will do
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