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Inchlonaig

Inchlonaig is an island in Loch Lomond in Scotland.

Inchlonaig is the most northerly of the larger islands in the Loch Lomond, just south of where it narrows into a ribbon loch, and north of Inchconnachan.

Inchlonaig has traces of human habitation dating back to 5000BC.

Scattered across the island are yew trees. The travel writer, H.V. Morton visited in the 1930s, and mentions:

It is also stated that King Robert used this supply to make bows before the fourteenth century Battle of Bannockburn. The island was thus of great value and the trees maintained with the utmost care.

Strathcashel, a stronghold of the Dukes of Montrose was opposite Inchlonaig.

Rob Roy fixed the amount of money he was to extort from Clan Colquhoun here.

At various times, the island has been a deer park, especially by Sir James Colquhoun in the 17th century and a place of confinement for drunkards and the mentally ill.

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