Ellan-Rorymore, an island in Loch Maree, Gairloch parish, Ross-shire. It was planted with pines about the year 1815, and it contains vestiges of a subterranean circular structure, similar to a Scandinavian dun or burgh. John Roy, ancestor of the Mackenzies of Gairloch, held it as a place of security from the attacks of the Macleods; and it was afterwards occupied by his son Alexander or Allister, who figures in tradition as a man of great wisdom and valour.
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