Duncan Bàn Macintyre Monument
Duncan Bàn MacIntyre (March 1724 – May 1812) was a highly renowned Gaelic poet
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This monument is on a hill just south of Dalmally in Argyll & Bute.
Across the web and literature there are many variations of his name. Macintyre is the most commonly used but if you prefer it in his own tongue it's Donnchadh Bàn Mac An T-Saoir. Any help?
Though one of the best known of the classic Gaelic poets he was by all accounts illiterate and simply recited his poetry from memory.
The poet spent a lot of his life as a soldier and then a city guard in Edinburgh (where he is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard) though a lot of his work was descriptive of the Scottish landscape.
The monument is basically hollow but there seems not to be a door or access. Financed by public subscription it was built in 1859.
