Monarch of the Glen Blavil Estate (aka Kilwillie Castle) for sale

[Grizzly]

Kyle if your a fiver short , I will sub you mate!

[creagdhubh]

Kyle if your a fiver short , I will sub you mate!

Hahaha! Cheers, Simon! Once the estate is officially ours, we can head down to The Tipsy Laird, or The Glen Hotel for a few celebratory drams with the locals.

[Grizzly]

It's only right that the estate should stay in McPherson hands. Just name the time and place and we will have that dram.

[creagdhubh]

It's only right that the estate should stay in McPherson hands. Just name the time and place and we will have that dram.

Indeed. From your own clan's perspective, I couldn't imagine Achnacarry Castle being occupied by anyone else other than Lochiel and his family!

Slainte,

[ThistleDown]

A couple of small corrections to the newspaper report. Balavil was formerly called Belleville, as was noted. An earlier house on the property was calls Raitts and was the residence of the Borlum Mackintoshes, but is not the Rait Castle, place of the Comyn plot to kill the leading Mackintoshes that seriously backfired on them. Balavil/Belleville/Raitts is in Badenoch, Raits Castle is in Nairnshire.

Raitts, along with two other Mackintosh lands, Benchar and Clune, was sold to James "Ossian" Macpherson; he had already purchased the old Macpherson lands of Phoiness and Ettridge and the Davidson holding of Invernahavon. James built the 'new' house and renamed it Belleville. After his death in 1796 one of his daughters, Juliet, inherited the property. She and her son, Lieut.-Colonel David Edward Brewster, added Macpherson to their name (Brewster-Macpherson) in order to succeed under Ossian's will.

In the last two generations the succession was again through the female line, so the name has altered once more, this time to Macpherson-Fletcher. I think this is the last of the old Mackintosh and, later, Macpherson properties in the Strath. It will be sad to see it pass out of Scottish ownership, but as Jock said, the costs of maintaining are enormous and it takes somebody's very healthy bank account to enable dozens and dozens of families to earn livings in the neighbourhood.

[creagdhubh]

A couple of small corrections to the newspaper report. Balavil was formerly called Belleville, as was noted. An earlier house on the property was calls Raitts and was the residence of the Borlum Mackintoshes, but is not the Rait Castle, place of the Comyn plot to kill the leading Mackintoshes that seriously backfired on them. Balavil/Belleville/Raitts is in Badenoch, Raits Castle is in Nairnshire.

Raitts, along with two other Mackintosh lands, Benchar and Clune, was sold to James "Ossian" Macpherson; he had already purchased the old Macpherson lands of Phoiness and Ettridge and the Davidson holding of Invernahavon. James built the 'new' house and renamed it Belleville. After his death in 1796 one of his daughters, Juliet, inherited the property. She and her son, Lieut.-Colonel David Edward Brewster, added Macpherson to their name (Brewster-Macpherson) in order to succeed under Ossian's will.

In the last two generations the succession was again through the female line, so the name has altered once more, this time to Macpherson-Fletcher. I think this is the last of the old Mackintosh and, later, Macpherson properties in the Strath. It will be sad to see it pass out of Scottish ownership, but as Jock said, the costs of maintaining are enormous and it takes somebody's very healthy bank account to enable dozens and dozens of families to earn livings in the neighbourhood.

PLUS ONE!!! Thanks for sharing, Rex!

[Downunder Kilt]

Thanks for the history Rex. It's always great to learn these snippets when an article on some of these grand old estates comes up. Cheers

[creagdhubh]

With the impending, record lottery jackpot of $636 million here in my neck-of-the-woods (I have my ticket(s) in hand), I just may have enough funds to make the purchase from Allan...of course, I have to actually have the winning numbers first!

MacphersonBalavilArsm.jpg

Check out the photos and the brief video:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/...-included.html

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

With the impending, record lottery jackpot of $636 million here in my neck-of-the-woods (I have my ticket(s) in hand), I just may have enough funds to make the purchase from Allan...of course, I have to actually have the winning numbers first!

MacphersonBalavilArsm.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/...-included.html

Winning numbers... there's always a catch, isn't there!

[creagdhubh]

Winning numbers... there's always a catch, isn't there!

Quite! Although, one cannot win if one does not play the game...may the odds be in my favour!