Where is Inverailort House?

Inverailort House is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.8712°, -5.6709°.

Reservoirs & lochs · Scottish Islands

Inverailort House

Inverailort House in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

Lochailort, postbox № PH38 106 - geograph.org.uk - 3397458 — Chris Downer — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Inverailort House is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Inverailort House is a mansion, south of Lochailort, at the head of Loch Ailort.

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Background

History

Having been a shooting lodge for MacDonald of Clanranald, Inverailort House was enlarged in 1828 by Major General Sir Alexander Cameron. It was subsequently owned by James Head, a director of several shipping lines, who married into the Cameron family in 1890. Francis Cameron-Head died in 1957 and his widow lived at Inverailort until her death in 1994. Her companion Barbara Mackintosh continued to live at the house until her eventual death in 2015. In the late 19th Century Christian Cameron, the wife of James Head, was a keen photographer. She took many photographs of the house and surrounding area. Most of the glass plates were lost or destroyed when the military took over the house during…

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