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 now being used locally to refer to the village from the 19th century with 238 inhabitants and pub and post office, at the small Applecross Bay is caused by the Inner Sound of the Hebridean island of Raasay separated becomes.
This row of houses, which is often referred to as "Applecross" and is also written so on some maps, is actually called Shore Street and is locally only called The Street . The name Applecross refers to all the settlements on the peninsula, including Toscaig, Culduie, Camusterrach, Milltown, Sand, The Street , Lonbain and many others. The local estate is also called Applecross. The small Applecross river flows into the bay at the settlement.
The extremely isolated Applecross Peninsula was only accessible by boat until the early 20th century. For years later, the only road access was via one of the most famous difficult roads in Scotland, the Bealach-na-Bà pass road, which crosses the peninsula and rises to 626 meters below the 774 meter high Sgurr a 'Chaorachain. Today, however, the settlement is also connected to Shieldaig and Torridon by a coastal road . 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 , "confluence of the [river] Crossan". Historically, this settlement is associated with St. Máelrubai or Maelrubha, who came from the main Irish monastery at Bangor in County Down in 671 . He founded Aporcrosan in 672 in what was then the Pictish area and was the first abbot of the monastery before he died in 722. Several of his successors as abbots are recorded in Irish annals until the early 19th century. The early monastery was roughly on the site of the later parish church (the current building was built in 1817). A large, unfinished cross slab in the churchyard and three extremely finely chiselled fragments of one or more other slabs that remained in the church serve as evidence of the early monastery. The surrounding region is known as a 'Chomraich , "the refuge" in Gaelic. Its borders used to be marked with crosses. The stump of one of these crosses, which was destroyed in 1870, survived between courtyard buildings in Camusterrach.
On Skye and in northern Scotland there are many churches dedicated to Maelrubha, the name of the saint sometimes taking on distorted forms (such as "Rufus" in Keith in Banffshire ). Loch Maree and its sacred island, Eilean Ma-Ruibhe (site of an early church and holy well) are also named after the saint.
The Applecross area is believed to have been one of the earliest populated areas in Scotland. In the coastal settlement of Sand, north of the main settlement, there is an important archaeological site with abrises and Køkkenmøddingern (Midden) from the Mesolithic .
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Coordinates: 57 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ N , 5 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ W.