Cnoc-na-Croiche Traditional Cache
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Cache is a lock and lock type container. boots advisable.
Cnoc-na-Croiche (Translated "Knoll of the Gallows")
"Seen many a Kneck has this Hill"
Logierait was the seat of the Court of Regality wherein the Lords of Atholl administered feudal justice. The famous Rob Roy MacGregor is said to have been imprisoned at Logierait in 1717.
The site of the court house and prison is now occupied by the Logierait Hotel. It is reputed the Atholl Court of Regality was originally held at Tullimet but in later times was removed to Logierait.
The site of the Gallows Knoll, Cnoc-na-croiche, of the Logierait court was on what is called the Rath to the north east of the village. Formerly this site was occupied by a castle, a favourite resort of several Scots kings, particularly Robert II and James III is said to have been the last monarch who stayed at the Rath. The castle was probably built in the fourteenth century. The site is now occupied by a large Celtic cross erected by the tenantry of the Atholl estates to the memory of the Sixth Duke of Atholl who died in 1864
"Ghosts!" did some one mention "Ghosts!" Well now thats another story!
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