Clach Chathail

DOESN'T QUITE FIT - LIKELY AN OLDER MONUMENT WITH A LATER LEGEND ATTACHED. Flagged via geograph.org.uk. Local tradition holds this marks the grave of an Irishman named Cathelus, who eloped with Cluny MacPherson's daughter and was murdered on the spot roughly 250 years before a 2009 written account (i.e. around the mid-18th century) - with the body later exhumed and reburied in consecrated ground, per one named local informant (a Mr MacAskill of Melgarve). But the description of the stone itself - comparatively unweathered granite, and moss/lichen growth suggesting real age - has led to competing theories that it predates the legend considerably: as a territorial boundary marker (it sits near the historic border of Badenoch and Lochaber), or, per one local historian (the late Dr Richardson of Laggan), as a battle-site marker. No contemporary documentation of Cathelus's death was found - this rests entirely on oral tradition recorded in the 1870 Ordnance Survey Name Book and passed down locally.