Hell's Glen

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Hell's Glen
An Gleann Beag (Scottish Gaelic)
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The road through Hell's Glen is the B839.
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Hell's Glen
Coordinates: 56°13′01″N4°56′46″W / 56.217°N 4.946°W / 56.217; -4.946
Grid position NN1820306549
Location Cowal, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
Formed by glacial erosion
Native nameAn Gleann Beag (Scottish Gaelic)

Hell's Glen is a glen in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, within the Arrochar Alps. The B839 single-track road passes through the glen. To the west, the glen leads to Loch Fyne and to the east Lochgoilhead. Glen Mhor (B828) joins the glen about half way along and leeds to Glen Croe at the Rest & be Thankful viewpoint. [1] [2] [3]

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The glen is named from its name in Gaelic, Glen Iarainn. This means "the Iron Glen" but sounds like the nearby Glen Ifhrinn which means "the Glen of Hell." [4] The glen is also known as An Gleann Beag, "the small glen", in Scottish Gaelic.

The glen is within the Argyll Forest Park that is itself within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. [5] [6]

Mountains

Mountains around the glen are:

Moses' Well

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Moses' Well

In the 19th century, a local minister constructed a spring in one of the rocks which was named after the incident in Exodus:

And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.

Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Coaching horses would stop at the well to quench their thirst on their journey. [8] Moses' Well is a well known attraction in the southwest of the glen. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 June 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ↑ "Gleann Beag, Cowal - Scotland's Hills". 2 April 2017. Archived from the original on 27 June 2024. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  3. ↑ "B839 - Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki". www.sabre-roads.org.uk.
  4. ↑ "Among the Hills", Temple Bar , 27: 102, November 1869
  5. ↑ "Argyll Forest Park". Forestry and Land Scotland. Archived from the original on 29 May 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  6. ↑ Lomond, Loch; G83 8EG, The Trossachs National Park Authority Carrochan Carrochan Road Balloch. "Here. Now. All of us". Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park. Archived from the original on 9 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ "Ben Donich - Corbett (Walkhighlands)". Walkhighlands. Archived from the original on 29 June 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  8. ↑ William Gunn; Charles Thomas Clough; Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1897), The geology of Cowal, p. 286
  9. ↑ "Tour Scotland: Old Photograph Moses Well Hell's Glen Scotland". Archived from the original on 6 December 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024.

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