Glencoe is a small village not far from Glen Innes and its name demonstrates the Celtic origins of the Glen Innes area. Named after Glen Coe in the highlands of Scotland.
The Scotish Glen Coe was the sight of the famous Massacre of Glencoe when on the 13th February 1692 men loyal to the king William of Orange and led by Capt Robert Campbell attacked and killed many men, women and children of Clan Macdonald as part of the ongoing Jacobite uprising.
The orders to Capt Campbell authorising the massacre were as follows:
You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebells, the McDonalds of Glenco, and put all to the sword under seventy. you are to have a speciall care that the old Fox and his sones doe upon no account escape your hands, you are to secure all the avenues that no man escape. This you are to putt in execution att fyve of the clock precisely; and by that time, or very shortly after it, I’ll strive to be att you with a stronger party: if I doe not come to you att fyve, you are not to tarry for me, but to fall on. This is by the Kings speciall command, for the good & safety of the Country, that these miscreants be cutt off root and branch. See that this be putt in execution without feud or favour, else you may expect to be dealt with as one not true to King nor Government, nor a man fitt to carry Commissione in the Kings service. Expecting you will not faill in the full-filling hereof, as you love your selfe, I subscribe these with my hand att Balicholis Feb: 12, 1692