Where is The Heart Stone?

The Heart Stone is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.6866°, -4.5374°.

Reservoirs & lochs · Scottish Highlands

The Heart Stone

The Heart Stone in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

Road to the Isles, junction at Loch Eigheach - geograph.org.uk - 7665872 — Kim McGillivray — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h

The Heart Stone 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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From the Wikipedia article

The Heart Stone or Clach Cridhe in Perth and Kinross, Scotland is an ancient landmark on Rannoch Moor situated on the old 'Road to the Isles'. During the construction of the B846 road from Kinloch Rannoch to Rannoch railway station it was seen as an obstacle and was drilled and split and later it was moved to its present location in the 1950s to prevent it being submerged in the artificially enlarged Loch Eigheach Gaur Reservoir. The stone now stands beside the B846 road from the station to Kinloch Rannoch.

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Background

History

The ruins of Ceanncoille (The Head of the Wood) steading on the opposite side of Loch Eigheach from the stone was originally a stronghold of the Menzies clan and it is located at the edge of the Black Wood of Rannoch, a well known area for thieves and bandits on the 'Road to the Isles' or to the Falkirk trysts in times past. The old track between Ceanncoille, Tom a Mheirlich and the shielings at Carnach is under the waters of the enlarged loch which once had several small islands. The drovers' routes across the moor were marked by cairns on small knolls, signifying the safest routes as well as prominent features such as unusually shaped boulders, etc. The road builders mainly followed an…

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