{"id":502,"date":"2014-09-01T18:02:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=502"},"modified":"2014-09-01T18:05:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:05:45","slug":"glendrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/glendrian\/","title":{"rendered":"Glendrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_503\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-glendrain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-503\" class=\"wp-image-503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-glendrain.jpg\" alt=\"Glendrian\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-glendrain.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-glendrain-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-glendrain-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glendrian township, an abandoned settlement<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The abandoned settlement\u00a0of Glendrian lies in the centre of the western end of the Ardnamurchan peninsula. \u00a0The name\u00a0derives from the Gaelic Gleann Droigheann meaning\u00a0&#8216;blackthorn glen&#8217;, and its\u00a0recorded history goes back to\u00a01619, when\u00a0an Allester McEan Voir VcEan of\u00a0\u2018Glendreane\u2019 is named as one of the MacIains involved in depredations against Donald Campbell of Barbreck and besieging Mingary Castle. \u00a0The site is now\u00a0is a Scheduled Monument, Historic Scotland describing it as \u201cof national importance because of its potential to contribute to our understanding of post-medieval settlement and economy&#8221;. \u00a0This village was not cleared in the 19th century, although the original clachan was reorganised into a crofting township. \u00a0Its decline came from its isolation: even in the mid-twentieth century, Glendrian&#8217;s\u00a0children had to walk many miles across rough country to reach the nearest primary school at Achosnich. \u00a0A history of the township can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/kilchoan.blogspot.co.uk\/p\/a.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The abandoned settlement\u00a0of Glendrian lies in the centre of the western end of the Ardnamurchan peninsula. \u00a0The name\u00a0derives from the Gaelic Gleann Droigheann meaning\u00a0&#8216;blackthorn glen&#8217;, and its\u00a0recorded history goes back to\u00a01619, when\u00a0an Allester McEan&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,82],"tags":[49,5],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-of-ardnamurchan","category-photo-of-the-week","tag-clachans","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}