- Type of Memorial
- Pillar / Column
- WMR Reference Number
- 58279
- Description
- Grey granite dolmen rising out of a bouldered cairn. The north face is carved with a ringed and bossed Celtic cross and inset with a bronze scroll commorating more than two hundred members of the Lamont Clan.
- Inscription
- To the memory of/their loyal forefathers/who perished near this spot./THE CLAN LAMONT/dedicated this monument/ September 1906/ During the civil wars of the seventeeth/century the Lamonts espoused the Royalist cause/thereby incurring the hostility of neighbouring/clans who laid seige to the castles of/Toward and Ascog. Sir James Lamont of that Ilk was forced to/surrender at Toward on 3rd June, 1649. When in/violation of Articles of capitulation and Indemnity/signed by the besiegers over two hundred/of the Lamonts were bound,/carried in boats to Dunoon,/and there murdered. Among those who thus perished/were:/
Neill MacPatrick or Lamont
Archibald Lamont son to Baron MacPatrick of Cowstoume
Robert Duncan and Hugh Lamont his brother
Duncan Ger Lamont in Kilmarnock
Gocie and John Lamont his son
Ewen Lamont in Midtowart
Gilbert Lamont, Duncan Lamont
John Archibald and Donald MackQuein or Lamont, brothers
Duncan and John sons of Walter Lamont, brother to the Laird of Escog
Hugh Lamont in corro of the carrie
Robert Duncan, Angus Donald and Walter Lamont, all in the carrie
Duncan Lamont called MackWalter there
Alexander Lamont in Ardyne of Nethercowall
William Lamont
John MackQuein younger, or Lamont
Patrick Boigle, son of the Minister at Rothesay
Dougall Happer or MacKalaster, servant to Sir James Lamont
John Lamont son to Gilbert Lamont or Khockdow
Gilbert MacKley in Glendardwall
James Lamont in Ardyne
Donald Lamont
James MackQuein or Lamont in Nethercowall
James Lamont his son
John MackPatrick or Lamont in Ardyne
John Lamont in Auchnishelloch
John Jamison Provost of Rothesay