Calum's Cairn Nicholas Mutton.
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Plaque on Calum's Cairn in Gaelic and English. An unusual sign John Allan. Top Places in Highland Highland, Scotland. A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on. The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects. Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.
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Sign up for our daily newsletter and enter to win a copy of our book, Atlas Obscura: Follow us on social media to add even more wonder to your day. Offer available only in the U. Offer subject to change without notice. By then, Calum and his wife, Lexie, were the last inhabitants of Arnish. Calum was awarded the British Empire Medal "for maintaining supplies to the Rona light".
The citation could not say for constructing a road which had been the subject of conflict with the authorities for twenty years. These plans however have not come to fruition. A cairn beside his road near Brochel Castle commemorates Calum's achievements. It is inscribed in Gaelic and then English. A dance "Calum's Road" was choreographed by British circle dancer Cindy Kelly, and it is regularly done by circle dance groups worldwide.
As well as being a road-builder, Macleod was a writer.
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A zealous and tireless correspondent with local authorities and newspapers, he was also a local historian of some distinction. An criathar agus an cliabh-gaoithe', Gairm , Spring, , —3. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved 6 January Retrieved from " https: