Applecross

The Applecross Peninsula ( Gaelic: A ' Chomraich, " The retreat " ) is a peninsula in Wester Ross in Ross -shire, on the west coast of Scotland. The name Applecross is at least 1300 years old and is not locally used to refer to the village from the 19th century, with 238 inhabitants, pub and post office, which is on the small Applecross Bay, which is separated from the Inner Sound of the Hebridean island of Raasay.

This row of houses, which is often referred to as " Applecross " and is written on some maps as Applecross, is actually called Shore Street ( " coast road " ) and is only locally called The Street. The name Applecross refers to all settlements on the peninsula, including Toscaig, Culduie, Camusterrach, Milltown, sand, The Street, Lonbain and many other count. And the local estate called Applecross. The small River Applecross flows at settlement in the bay.

The extremely isolated Applecross Peninsula was only accessible by boat until the early 20th century. Later, the only road access was for years on one of the most difficult roads of Scotland, the Bealach -na- Ba - pass road that crosses the peninsula and descends below the 774 meter high Sgurr a ' Chaorachain up to 626 meters. The settlement, however, is now joined by a coastal road with Shieldaig and Torridon. This road runs along the coast of the Inner Sound and Loch Torridon.

Early history

The name Applecross is the anglicized form of the Pictish name Aporcrosan, " the confluence of the [ river ] Crossan ". Historically, this settlement with St. Máelrubai or Maelrubha is connected, who came from the main Irish monastery at Bangor, County Down 671. He founded Aporcrosan 672 in that time piktischem area and was the first abbot of the monastery before he died 722. Several of his successor as abbot recorded in the Irish annals to the early 19th century. The early monastery was located approximately at the site of the later parish church ( the present building was built in 1817). A large, unfinished cross- slab, which is in the cemetery, and three extremely fine carved fragments of one or more other in the church remaining, serve as evidence of the early monastery. The surrounding area is known as a ' Chomraich, " the refuge " in Gaelic. Their boundaries were previously marked with crosses. The stump of one of these crosses, which was destroyed in 1870, survived between farm buildings in Camusterrach.

On Skye and northern Scotland there are many Maelrubha dedicated churches, where the name of the Holy sometimes takes mocked forms (such as " Rufus " in Keith in Banffshire ). Loch Maree and his sacred island of Eilean Ma - Ruibhe ( site of an early church and a holy well ) are also named after the saint.

It is believed the area of Applecross was one of the earliest settled areas of Scotland. In the coastal settlement of sand, north of the main settlement, there is an important archaeological site with shelters and Kökkenmöddingern ( Midden ) from the Mesolithic.