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10 unusual facts about Loch Lomond


Alexander McNair

His grandfather, David McNair, Sr., immigrated to Pennsylvania from Donaghmore, County Donegal, Ireland around 1733 and had Scottish ancestors from Loch Lomond.

Ann Davison

Her second book, Home was an Island, describes their life after the sale of their airfield and before the purchase of Reliance, during which time they bought and farmed the small islands of Inchmurrin and then Inchfad on Loch Lomond.

Bromley, Zimbabwe

Originally it was called Broomley after a dower house on Tullichewan Estates on the banks of Loch Lomond in Scotland

Frank Albinder

Perhaps his best known work is the vocal solo of Loch Lomond, featured on the Chanticleer album Wondrous Love.

Graeme Murty

On 30 January 2008, Murty was one of nine defenders called up by new Scotland boss George Burley for his first get-together, a training camp between 3 and 5 February 2008 at Loch Lomond.

Loch Lomond RFC

While most of Loch Lomond's short history has been spent trying to stay afloat financially, they have achieved 3 promotions (2nd place Glasgow District League Division 2 in 99/00, 2nd place Glasgow District League Division 1 in 00/01 and as champions of BT National Division 5 West (B) in 05/06) and 1 relegation (from BT National League 5 West (A) in 04/05).

McCausland

They are said to have settled through a charter on the island called Clarines - Clarich, in Loch Lomond.

The family came from Ireland to the Loch Lomond region of Scotland sometime before the twelfth century.

Oxenham Non-Connectors

Of the six titles in this series, four are set largely in Scotland: Goblin Island is set on 'Loch Avie', a fictionalised Loch Lomond; Princess in Tatters is set on 'Loch Ruel', which may be Loch Fyne; A Holiday Queen is set at 'Morven' on what appears to be Loch Long; and Schoolgirls and Scouts is set at 'Glenleny', which also seems to be on Loch Long, but a bit further up the loch.

Pumpkintown, South Carolina

The first white settler, in 1745, was 30-years old Cornelius Keith, a Scottish Highlander who was born at Loch Lomond and as a child had immigrated to Brunswick County, Virginia, to later move with his wife Juda and a son into this frontier area of the Carolinas.


Children's Hospice Association Scotland

A fundraising appeal to build Scotland’s second hospice Robin House in Balloch near Loch Lomond began in 2001 with readers of the Sunday Post helping raise the £10 million needed to complete the project.

French Frith Kaiser Thompson

The group re-assembled in San Francisco in March 1990 to record Invisible Means, another collection of "skewed" songs from each of the members, plus one cover ("Loch Lomond").

Heather Woods Broderick

She has released solo material under her own name, been a member of Efterklang, Horse Feathers and Loch Lomond, and been a member of the backing bands of Laura Gibson and Sharon Van Etten.

Kings House Hotel

By the late 18th century, the building had reverted to its original use as a coaching inn serving travellers that came from Ballachulish to Loch Lomond via Tyndrum.

Pavers Shoes

Ten years later, the company has outlet stores stretching from Loch Lomond in Scotland to Trerulefoot in the Cornwall.

Powan

The powan (Coregonus clupeoides) is a kind of freshwater whitefish endemic to two lochs in Scotland, Loch Lomond and Loch Eck.

Speed Your Love to Me

These projections of the Clyde Tunnel, Kingston Bridge and Erskine Bridge expand into aerial perspectives of the Firth of Clyde and Loch Lomond as Jim Kerr sings "higher and higher" while the camera 'takes off'.