Story #15 – The Great Cave of Raitts & Lost Townships

Click the triangular ‘play’ buttons below to listen to each part of the 2-part story…

Part 1

Part 2

The Stories Behind the Stories

Hello all, Hamish Napier here, one of the storytellers for Badenoch Heritage. All of the stories contained within the new Badenoch – The Storylands smartphone app are here on the website now too.

CREDITS

Music

Voice Actors

• Hamish Napier – narrator: and Duke of Gordon’s factor, William Tod,
• Peter Mackay – Revered William Blair of Kingussie Parish Church; and Macintosh of Borlum, brigadier in the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion
• Hugh Dan MacLennan – Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, the Highland land developer, lawyer and scholar
• Sandy MacDonell – Highland bagpipes – piobaireachd.
• Seumas Grannd, Ruaridh Ormiston, Nicole Webber, Yvonne Richmond, Sheila Mackay, Catherine Vis-Christie and Donnie Ross – listing the names of people cleared from the townships

Researchers

Hamish Napier, with the kind help of local historians and heritage enthusiasts David Taylor, Roddy Maclean and Mary Mackenzie.

Images Below

• James Stevens – Photography and aerial photography
• Bob Marshall – Digital reconstructions by, view more here.

Digital reconstruction of Raitts Souterrain and speculative overground iron age roundhouse, Badenoch, Scottish Highlands. Reconstruction by Bob Marshall, 2020.

Digital reconstruction of Raitts Township, Badenoch early 1700s.

Want to hear more stories like this?…

Download and listen to all 18 stories on the free Badenoch – The Storylands smartphone app, or alternatively you can listen on your computer and download them here.