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Allotment Fox

spencer Jul 19, 2025 22:39:44

Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon, since we’re in communication, how about sniffing arround for folklore etc around the Carradale, Dippen and Torrisdale area on Kintyre? I’ve recently put up the Carradale Point vitrified fort as a site on TMA Argyll and Bute, yet to visit - it seems to have been up as a site on ‘the other place’ for a while. Interest prompted by the adjacent bay Port Righ - port of the king - a very rare name in Scotland. An important place methinks :-)

Howburn Digger Oct 5, 2025 16:50:32

Replying to spencer

You'll find another Port Righ on Skye (it's the island's capital). Spelled Portree nowadays.

As an Ayrshire man I've always assumed the Kintyre/ Carradale Port Righ was linked to Robert the Bruce. He was well known in those parts and stayed at King's Caves straight across the water on Arran's West Coast for some time during his guerrilla war years between 1306 and the triumph of Bannockburn in 1314. The hills directly above the King's Caves on Arran are called Torr Righ Mohr (The Big Hill of the King) and Torr Righ Beag (The Small Hill of the KIng). Bruce also held land - and a stonking biffer of a castle - on the Ayrshire Coast at Turnberry.

Howburn Digger Oct 5, 2025 17:00:08

Replying to spencer

You'll find another Port Righ on Skye (it's the island's capital). Spelled Portree nowadays.

As an Ayrshire man I've always assumed the Kintyre/ Carradale Port Righ was linked to Robert the Bruce. He was very well known in those parts and stayed at King's Caves (a few miles across the Kilbrannan Sound from Carradale's Port Righ) on Arran's West Coast for some time during his guerrilla war years between 1306 and the triumph of Bannockburn in 1314. The hills directly above the King's Caves on Arran are called Torr Righ Mohr (The Big Hill of the King) and Torr Righ Beag (The Small Hill of the KIng). Bruce also had land - and a stonking biffer of a castle - on the Ayrshire Coast at Turnberry.