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JOHNNY BLAIR
Legend has it that Johnny Blair lived in a stone and turf
'black house' atop the small hillock now known as Johnny Blair's Garden close to
Shepherd's Bridge in Glen Banchor, in the early 19th Century.
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Becoming attracted to a lovely local lassie from a nearby township, he is reputed to have
captured her and taken her to his house, where he fought off many attempts by her family
and friends to rescue her, before, in the end, she became so enamoured of him that she
refused to leave. This story is probably apochryphal, but it makes a good tale!
Johnny Blair is did, however, make a beautiful garden atop the hillock, proving that
sparse though the soil may have been, it was still possible to grow many plants.
Nothing now remains of the black house - or indeed, the garden, although the site is also
identified as being that of a double-palisaded enclosure, from centuries before. |
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