Struy ( or ) is a small village at the end of

Glen Strathfarrar Glen Strathfarrar () is a glen in the Highland (council area), Highland region of Scotland, near Loch Ness. The Glen is part of the Affric-Beauly hydro-electric power scheme, with a dam at Loch Monar and a 9 km tunnel carrying water to an u ...

, about 15 km south-west of Beauly in the

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council area of

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Description

The confluence of the River Farrar and the River Glass is a short distance to the east of Struy, here the rivers join to become the

River Beauly The River Beauly (, ) is a river in the Scottish Highlands, about 15 km west of the city of Inverness. It is about 25 km long, beginning near the village of Struy, at the confluence of the River Farrar and the River Glass, Strathglass ...

. The River Farrar is crossed by

Thomas Telford Thomas Telford (9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well ...

's five arch Struy Bridge a short distance to the north, this carries the A831 road. A minor road crosses the Mauld Bridge, over the River Glass, to the south-east of Struy.

Nature reserve and buildings

Struy is the place to gain access to the nature reserve of

and four

Munro A Munro (; ) is defined as a mountain in Scotland with a height over , and which is on the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) official list of Munros; there is no explicit topographical prominence requirement. The best known Munro is Ben Nevi ...

s. The road is private and only a limited number of cars are allowed to access through the gate.Strathfarrar - A finer glen by far
10 December 2008, ''Strathspey Herald'', Retrieved 26 March 2017 Erchless Castle lies about than 1.5 km north-east of Struy. The turreted and crenelated building was built in about 1600 and modified in 1790 and 1895.Erchless Castle
British Listed Buildings, Retrieved 26 March 2017 Nearby are the remains of an Iron-Age dun which measures twelve metres by thirteen metres. Struy Church is one of three churches that make up Kilmorach and Erchless parish. The main church at Beauly has weekly services where the services in Struy happen every fortnight.Welcome
Beauly Church, Retrieved 25 March 2017

Local residents

* Catriona Nic Fhearghais,

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and wife of a Clan Chisholm warrior, William Chisholm of

Strathglass Strathglass is a strath or wide and shallow valley in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland down which runs the meandering River Glass, Strathglass, River Glass from the point at which it starts at the confluence of the River Affric and Abhainn De ...

. Catriona composed one of the most iconic verse laments in Scottish Gaelic literature after her husband fell fighting with the Jacobite Army at the

Battle of Culloden The Battle of Culloden took place on 16 April 1746, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. A Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, thereby endi ...

in 1746. A roadside memorial at Mauld Bridge, Struy now marks the place where she bade him farewell. They lived a few miles away at Crochail.

References

{{Commons category, Struy Populated places in Inverness committee area