Monument record MHG24917 - Murchison's Monument

Back on the A87 the monument to the memory of Colonel Donald Murchison, loyal kinsman and factor to William, fifth Earl of Seaforth during the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1719 looks over Loch Alsh. When Seaforth's title and lands were forfeited to the Crown, Murchison risked his life time and again to collect the rents and take them to his master in Paris. He was caught and imprisoned in the Tower of London until King George I, admiring his loyalty, pardoned him and gave him a grant of land. Unfortunately Seaforth was not granted nor did he recognise the King's gift. Murchison moved east and died disillusioned in middle age.

The memorial was raised in 1861 by his great-grand-nephew the celebrated geologist and geographer Sir Roderick Murchison of Tarradale. The Trust has erected a handsome explanatory board and indicator naming the great peaks that can be seen from this panoramic viewpoint.

Info from NTS: Balmacara, Kintail and the Falls of Glomach (1991).