Dunalastair House
Dunalastair is an estate that lies along the River Tummel between Tummel Bridge to the east and Kinloch Rannoch to the west. It was home to Clan Donnachaidh, which includes names such as Robertson, Duncan and Reid, and the estate contains the burial ground of the chiefs of the Clan Donnachaidh. The first structure on the site was a tower house that burnt down after the rebellion of 1745. The Clan chiefs built a second house on the site, and the family lived there until the 1850s when someone accidentally burned down this new house. The ruins now visible at Dunalatair are those of the third house to be built on the site, and are the remains of an old Baronial style mansion built in 1862 by General Macdonald, then owner of Dunalastair. During World War II, the house was requisitioned and subsequently used as a school for Polish refugees - said to have set fire to the dining room. Finally abandoned in 1952, it quickly became a derelict and roofless shell. The ruins now sit on the property of the Dunalastair Estate Cottages. (Old Laundry, Dunalastair, Scotland, United Kingdom)
