Duncan Ban Macintyre Monument
Dalmally, Argyll

Looking south-west down Loch Awe. This monument is on a hill just south of Dalmally
in Argyll & Bute.

These were taken in early autumn.

Duncan Ban MacIntyre (March 1724 – May 1812) was a highly renowned Gaeilc poet.

North-east.

Though one of the best known of the classic Gaelic poets he was by all accounts illiterate and simply recited his poetry from memory.

To the north-west Kilchurn Castle is clearly visible about two miles away. 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 monmunet is basically hollow but there seems not to be a door or access.

Financed by public subscription it was built in 1859.