The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

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
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    The Garvellachs: just below the surface

    September 1, 2013 /

    Set into a grassy bank on Eileach an Naoimh, the 'Isle of the Saints', is this small but intriguing underground chamber. Just what was it used for?

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    St Bride’s: a history worth saving

    June 20, 2018

    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016

    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019
  • Carved crosses,  History

    Inveraray Cross

    August 30, 2013 /

    For any visitor to Inveraray, the glorious castle steals the show - but it's worth taking time to look at this lovely old relic from an age that is lost.

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    Treasures in a Knapdale wood

    May 29, 2021

    St Adamnan’s Cross in Glen Lyon

    February 20, 2016

    Kildalton Cross: guardian of another time

    March 11, 2012
  • History

    The Fairy Flag of Dunvegan

    August 7, 2013 /

    It's 1580, you're in an advancing army and you see the MacLeods on the other side start to unfurl their Fairy Flag. What do you do? You run!

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    Alexander II and the ‘ghosts’ of his galleys

    August 18, 2020

    Nether Largie: secrets in stone

    October 2, 2013

    Killiecrankie: haunted by memories

    January 13, 2014
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"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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