In 1782 Duncan MacDonnell was the first of the Glengarry "daoine uasal" turning his land over to "an caora mor" or the big sheep .
The bards said that there were few removals in Gleann Cuaich at the time as this land was pasture.
They also said so successful was this introduction that three years later began the systematic evictions of the Gleann a Gharadh people from the surrounding Glens and land now drowned by Loch "Cuaich" ( loch of the cup shape)
Today the stalkers path to Sgurr a Mhaoraich leads you quickly up and onto druim coire nan Eiricheallach which translated means "ridge of the corrie of stolen cattle" although Peter MacRae native to Ceann Loch Hourn would have it as" the coire of the lazy sheperd boy".
There is grand views to Gairich from the druim
Bha an t side sgothach is tioram ach leis frasach bheag ..... on Saturday past the weather was mixed which added to the atmosphere of this empty portion of the Gaidhealtachd
We were blessed with openings to the North along the long cleared Gleann Cuaich with Druim Seile a Deas flanking her Ceann Taile side
She is a grand hill a Mhaoraich and we had fleeting glimpses of a clear summit as we approached the last of the coirean is slighean
However the Gaidhealtachd likes to hide her summits for sure and Sgurr a Mhaoraich soon disappeared into the ceó as we arrived at the Cárn

We sat air a mhullach for a while watching the ceo swirl around and indeed it was pleasant tucked out of the wind although Mhaoraich was keepingg her cloak on !
After a while we began wandering down over the druim garbh its a pleasant scrabble mind with slippery rock and some fair drops
A'dh'aithgearr bha sinn sios an sgothan agus anns a grian is frasach a ribhist .... we soon exited the mist into a mix of sun n showers back on Druim Coire nan Eiricheallach
In April 1745 six hundred men from the Glengarry lands joined Charles Edward Stuart under the command of Aonghas MacDonell of Lochgarry, amongst them would have been men who grazed their cattle on the high pasture of Sgurr a Mhaoraich and in the Coire nan Eiricheallach .......
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