Breachacha

Nearest town:
Tobermory (36km ENE)
OS reference:
NM152533
OS sheet:
46
Latitude:
56° 35' 5.64 N
Longitude:
6° 38' 21.05 W
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Breachacha
Standing Stone / Menhir
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Feb 27, 2009

We sat out after dinner for Breacacha, the family seat of the Laird of Col, accompanied by the young laird [...]. It is called Breacacha, or the Spotted Field, because in the summer it is enamelled with clover and daisies, as young Col told me. We passed by a place where there is a very large stone, I may call it a rock: -- ‘a vast weight for Ajax’. The tradition is, that a giant threw such another stone at his mistress, up to the top of a hill, at a small distance; and that she in return, threw this mass down to him. It was all in sport.

From ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ by James Boswell, 1791.

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