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From here you couldn’t see the hillside let alone the building when we trekked up here yesterday. Passed it again today and there were some much more interesting clouds enveloping the Fyrish Monument this time… • • • • • #Alness #EasterRoss #Evanton #Fyrish #FyrishMonument #NC500 #NorthCoast500 #Scotland #AdobePhotoshop #MultipleExposure #Manipulation #ScotlandsLandscape #Monuments #Folly #summer #ScotlandHighlands #History #IG_Scotland #VisitScotland #OutAndAboutScotland #ScotlandIsNow #ScotlandMagazine #IGersScotland #ExploreScotland #SonyImages #SonyAlphasClub #A6500 #SEL55210 (at Fyrish Monument) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz3OToZhX_C/?igshid=173wvi731h00z

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Great views to be had from here. On any other day maybe. Started the walk in the clouds and it rained all the way there and back. But that meant we had the place pretty much to ourselves and, in lieu of those views, made our own entertainment. • • • • • © Copyright Brian Smith 2019 #Alness #EasterRoss #Evanton #Fyrish #FyrishMonument #Hillwalking #NC500 #NorthCoast500 #Scotland #dreich #AdobePhotoshop #MultipleExposure #Manipulation #ScotlandsLandscape #dogwalking #summer #ScotlandHighlands #History #IG_Scotland #VisitScotland #OutAndAboutScotland #ScotlandIsNow #ScotlandMagazine #IGersScotland #ExploreScotland #SonyImages #SonyAlphasClub #A6500 #SEL55210 (at Fyrish Monument) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz00-h0h8Z7/?igshid=irb447n35gxs

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Fyrish monument by Rossmcewan on Flickr.

Fyrish Monument There is a myth about the building of the Fyrish Monument, relating to the commissioning of it by Sir Hector Munro. It is said that Sir Munro was a generous man, looking to help the local villagers in their time of unemployment. As the villagers would not take his charity, he instead paid them, as noted, to build the monument. The myth goes that after the villagers had transported the large boulders that the monument is made out of to the top of the hill it is situated on, Sir Hector Munro (presumably with help) rolled all of the stones down the hill again. He could then pay the villagers double the amount for them having to complete the task twice. It should perhaps be pointed out that as the local landowner, it was none other than Sir Hector who had brought in the sheep which were the cause of the unemployment problem. In fact, the risings against the sheep which occurred 10 years later were centered on the glens north and west of Fyrish, on land let by Sir Hector Munro to men from outwith the area. These risings culminated in 1792 with the Black Watch being called in to disperse the highlanders who had driven all of the sheep in ross-shire into a huge flock within sight of Fyrish!