Folklore & legend

The Gille Dubh of Loch a Druing

Loch a' Druing, Gairloch (position approximate)

Latter eighteenth century

The child was Jessie MacRae, who was lost in the woods one summer night. The Gille Dubh came to her, was kind to her, and took her home next morning. She grew up and married John Mackenzie, tenant of the farm, who was grandfather to James Mackenzie of Kirkton, Dixon's informant.

After that Sir Hector Mackenzie of Gairloch invited the lairds of Coul, Dundonnell, Letterewe and Kernsary to join a hunt to repress him. They dined at Mackenzie's farm, slept on heather in his barn, searched all the woods, and saw nothing of the Gille Dubh.

Remote moorland and wood on the North Point; no marked path.
Evidence
Long-standing local tradition
Access
No public access
Location
57.846, -5.800 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)

Sources: John H. Dixon, Gairloch in North-West Ross-shire (1886), Project Gutenberg [public-domain]

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