Fodderty

Nearest town:
Dingwall (4km E)
OS reference:
NH50005936
OS sheet:
26
Latitude:
57° 35' 57.99 N
Longitude:
4° 30' 37.08 W
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Image of Fodderty (Standing Stones) by drewbhoy

If the trees didn’t obscure the view to the south you’d see Knock Farril Hillfort

Image credit: drew/B
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Oct 26, 2022

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Fodderty

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jan 31, 2023

The iron protection bar described in 1943 has been gone a long time, the stone now appears to be in a builder’s backyard.

We parked at Milnain on the A834, clambered through a wood and jumped a stream to reach fields a short distance north from the road. From there we had the easy walk to the first of the Fodderty Standing Stones.

It sits at 1.6m high and stands all by itself except for the assorted building materials.

Visited 20/10/2022.

Folklore

Fodderty
Standing Stones
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Oct 27, 2022

Strathpeffer Biography

The Great Hero of the Gaels was Finn mac Coul, Fingal of the tales of Ossian. That the old fort would provide a suitable abode for mac Coul’s heroic companions was obvious, and fertile imaginations would use other local features in adapting old tales and inventing new ones. For instance, the great standing stones in the valley had to be explained. So stories readily came to lips of how the ancient warriors used to engage in trials of strength, tossing rocks over the Strath. But even in those days it sometimes happened that the weather spoiled people’s sport, and when the footholds were slippery the stones, instead of clearing the valley, landed deep in the hollow. Look, there are the finger-and-thumb marks of the giants on that stone to this day!

Folklore

Fodderty
Standing Stones
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Oct 26, 2022

HAUNTING THE FODDERTY STONES, KILVANNIE HOUSE AND TULLOCH CASTLE

In about 2006, lots of curious tittle tattle was circulating around the Edinburgh LGBT Community about what might really be happening at Tulloch Castle. A young musician from Midlothian called Cameron. even said something about a Druidic circle. Following strange meetings in Edinburgh with Cameron and Walter Mitty (see below) in 2018, I’m inclined to believe Cameron and lots of other weird stuff he told me many years previously. But where is the Druidic circle? It certainly isn’t in the grounds of Tulloch Castle.

A distinguished-looking Walter-MItty-esque friend of Cameron with an apparently appropriate apparent surname (who’d previously thought that he was head of the Samaritans and now thinks that he’s an eminent professor) said that his family seat was in Tulloch Castle, added further to the mystery by setting me a strange puzzle concerning politicians being taken on trips to these climes, and sent me all sorts of weird documents and messages in Spanish, I was, however, never able to get to the bottom of it! A graduate in History and Politics called Jason from Stirling University had previously told me (in the Summer of 2000) about Edinburgh-SNP-organised ‘hunting trips for prey’ for politicians and VIPs to the Inverness area and I regard his information as reliable. Maybe these strands of information can be pulled together by considering my 2021 blogpost. In other words, have various politicians and VIPS got together for gay fun and frolics on the Fodderty Stones (not all of which are at Kilvannie House)

Thomas Hoskyns Leonard Blog

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