Loch na Beiste
Dawnbreaker
Lars Alfredson
Thu 10 Jul 2025 19:19
POS 57:15.41N 5:43.44W Anchored at Loch na Beiste The creature is spoken of by the natives as the “Beast.” He lives, or did live, in the depths of a loch called after him Loch na Beiste, or “the loch of the Beast.  .  In his ‘Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree’ (1886), John H. Dixon gave the following account of a creature that was said to live in Loch na Beiste roughly 50 years early. ‘The existence of water-kelpies in Gairloch, if perhaps not universally credited in the present generation, was accepted as undoubted in the last. The story of the celebrated water-kelpie of the Greenstone Point is very well known in Gairloch. The proceedings for the extermination of this wonderful creature formed a welcome topic for Punch of the period. The creature is spoken of by the natives as the “Beast.” He lives, or did live, in the depths of a loch called after him Loch na Beiste, or “the loch of the beast,” which is about half way between Udrigil House and the village of Mellon Udrigil. |