Fyrish Monument, Evanton

Name: Fyrish Monument
Address: Fyrish Hill, Evanton, United Kingdom

#1 among attractions in Evanton

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The Fyrish Monument is a monument built in 1782 on Fyrish Hill, in Fyrish in Evanton, near Alness, Easter Ross, Scotland, on the orders of Sir Hector Munro, 8th of Novar, a native lord of the area who had served in India as a general. As the local population were being cleared off the land they had worked for centuries by the Lords of the Land, survival was a problem and so it was built to keep the locals in labour. It was said that Sir Hector rolled stones from the top of the hill to the bottom, thereby extending the amount of time worked and paying the labourers for additional hours. ()

Coordinates: 57°41'44"N, 4°20'16"W

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Fyrish HillEvanton United Kingdom

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Fyrish Monument – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Foulis Castle, Castlecraig, Black Rock Gorge, Clach a' Mheirlich.

3.6 miS
Forts and castles
Foulis Castle
93 min walk • Foulis Castle is situated two miles south-west of Evanton in the parish of Kiltearn, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. It is a white washed mansion that incorporates an old tower house with gun loops.
4 miSE
Forts and castles
Castlecraig
101 min walk • Castlecraig, also known as Craig Castle and Castle Craig, is a 16th-century fortification located on the north shore of the Black Isle in northern Scotland. It is on the south coast of the Cromarty Firth, 5 kilometres north-east of Culbokie and 19 kilometres north of the city of Inverness. The castle is protected as a scheduled monument.
2.3 miSW
Nature, Canyon, Natural attraction
Black Rock Gorge
60 min walk • Black Rock Gorge is a deep and narrow cleft in Old Red Sandstone conglomerate through which the Allt Graad flows in Easter Ross, Scotland.
4.6 miE
Stela
Clach a' Mheirlich
118 min walk • The Clach a' Mheirlich or Rosskeen Stone is a standing stone in a field near Rosskeen, Easter Ross, Scotland. The stone itself is Bronze Age in origin, but has on it three incised Pictish-style symbols barely visible on the surface of the stone, making it a Class I Pictish symbol stone.
4.3 miS
Bridge
Cromarty Bridge
111 min walk • The Cromarty Bridge is a road bridge over the Cromarty Firth in Scotland.
3.3 miE
Museum
Alness Academy
83 min walk • Alness Academy is a secondary school in Alness, Highland in the north on the Cromarty Firth of Scotland, serving the town of Alness and the villages of Evanton and Ardross.
2.7 miE
Forts and castles
Teaninich Castle, Alness
70 min walk • Teaninich Castle is situated north of the village of Evanton and just south of the town of Alness in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland.
3.7 miE
Distillery, Whiskey distillery
Dalmore distillery, Alness
94 min walk • The Dalmore distillery is located in Alness, Scotland, which is 20 miles north of Inverness. It sits on the banks of the Cromarty Firth overlooking the Black Isle, the "big meadowland", from which it takes its name.
2.5 miS
Forts and castles
Balconie Castle, Evanton
64 min walk • Balconie Castle lay in the parish of Kiltearn, about 1⁄2 mile east of the village of Evanton in the Highlands of Scotland.