The Lone Headstone Traditional Cache
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A small enclosure on the side of the A84 between Kilmahog and Lochearnhead is the site of St. Bride's Chapel, which is the burial place for the McKinlays of Annie. It’s the sort of place that you can drive by a hundred times and not even notice or just glimpse and wander what it is. There’s a lay-by a hundred metres or so south so take care walking along the verge.
The man’s name on the only standing headstone is James McKinlay who died in 1825.
From an internet search - MacKinlay sources say that the MacKinlays of The Annie in Strathyre (adjacent to Glen Finglas) were a cadet branch of Clan Farquharson. (William MacKinlay, former President of the United States was descended from this branch.) These MacKinlays were descended from Finlay Mor Farquharson of Braemar, perhaps by illegitimate offspring. It now seems reasonable to suggest that Finlay Mor may have had a son named Finlay Glas who was the first to settle in Glen Finglas and after whom the Glen was named - and that it was his family who were completely wiped out when their funeral procession fell through the ice on Lochan nan Corp (small lake of the corpses) on their way to St. Bride's Chapel, which is the traditional MacKinlay burial ground at The Annie. Thus, it would appear that the original inhabitants of Glen Finglas were MacKinlays.
The cache is hidden just inside of the enclosure near the road.
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