The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach
  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood

Latest blog posts for RSGS

Alexander Kellas - 'the most modest man that ever travelled the Himalayas'
Jane Digby el-Mezrab: from ballroom conquests to bedouin camps
Sir Everard im Thurn and an expedition to 'The Lost World'
Straight up the Prow: Roraima by the hardest route
  • Photography

    Windows: Old Castle Lachlan

    February 4, 2017 /

    Something to brighten a rainy day… the view from a window in Old Castle Lachlan on Loch Fyne. This is the ancient stronghold of the Maclachlans of Strathlachlan, and it certainly has some stories to tell.  You can read more in this article on The Hazel Tree. Photo © Jo Woolf

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    Windows: Culross Palace

    July 31, 2017

    Jewels of the sea

    July 20, 2016

    Windows: Edinburgh Castle

    January 27, 2017
  • History,  Scottish castles

    Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016 /

    Ghosts of horses tend to come in different guises, some of them benevolent and some of them more inclined towards the Apocalypse. The story that is linked with Old Castle Lachlan is moving and gentle, touched by the sadness of Culloden

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    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part two

    June 25, 2013

    Culloden: field of sorrow

    January 23, 2017

    St Mary’s College in St Andrews

    September 23, 2014
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Kilmorie Chapel by Loch Fyne

    October 17, 2016 /

    Carpeted with moss, this ancient burial ground of the Maclachlans could hold distant echoes of an early saint

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    A little chapel in Ballachulish

    May 19, 2014

    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019

    The old chapel of Kilvaree

    June 24, 2018

    "To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."

    Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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