Hell's Glen
An Gleann Beag (Scottish Gaelic) | |
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Glen | |
 The road through Hell's Glen is the B839. | |
  Hell's Glen | |
| Coordinates: 56°13′01″N 4°56′46″W / 56.217°N 4.946°W | |
| Grid position | NN1820306549 |
| Location | Cowal, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. |
| Formed by | glacial erosion |
| Native name | An Gleann Beag (Scottish Gaelic) |
Hell's Glen is a glen on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of 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]
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]
- ^ https://lochgoilheadholidays.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Walking-Guide.pdf
- ^ "Gleann Beag, Cowal - Scotland's Hills". 2 April 2017.
- ^ "B839 - Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki". www.sabre-roads.org.uk.
- ^ "Among the Hills", Temple Bar, 27: 102, November 1869
- ^ "Argyll Forest Park". Forestry and Land Scotland.
- ^ Lomond, Loch; G83 8EG, The Trossachs National Park Authority Carrochan Carrochan Road Balloch. "Here. Now. All of us". Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park.
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