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A tall rubble column with a corbelled and crenellated wallhead; surmounted by a later bronze statue of a Highlander. There is a battered base with a pulvinated string course and a barely projecting corniced entrance porch serving internal spiral stair. It is surrounded by a coped eight-sided rubble wall with three later pedimented sections containing inscriptions in English, Gaelic and Latin. A folly in a sublime landscape standing close to the site at the head of Loch Shiel where the Jacobite standard was raised in August 1745. It was erected in 1814 to commemorate the Highlanders who stood for Prince Charles Edward during 1745 rebellion by Alexander MacDonald of Glenaladale, who died before completion and to whom the plaques are also a memorial.
Title
Glenfinnan Monument
Medium
stone & bronze
Measurements
H 1830 x W 400 x D 400 cm (E)
Accession number
PH37_DO_S114
Work type
Building
Owner
The Highland Council
Custodian
The Highland Council
Listing status
A (Scotland)
Listing date
05/10/71
Access
at all times
Inscription description
brass plaque: National Trust for Scotland acknowledges the / generous support of the Canadian National Trust / for Scotland Foundation towards the restoration / of this monument. / February 2017; cast iron information panel: THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND / GLENFINNAN / BLIADHNA PHRIONNSA / THE JACOBITE MONUMENT, TO THE / CLANSMEN WHO FOLLOWED PRINCE / CHARLES EDWARD IN THE '45 RISING / FOR THE STUART CAUSE, WAS HANDED / OVER TO THE CARE OF THE TRUST IN 1938. / THE TRUST ASKS FOR YOUR / CO-OPERATION IN GUARDING IT AND / PREVENTING DISFIGUREMENT. / YOUR SUPPORT, BY DONATIONS / TOWARDS THE UPKEEP OF THIS / PROPERTY WILL BE VERY MUCH / APPRECIATED.; exterior Panel (latin): AVITUM. IMPERIUM. / TRISTI. IMPRUDENTIA. AMISSUM. / PER. SUMMA. DISCRIMINA. VINDICARE. AUDAX. / INFELIX. JUVENIS. / CAROLUS. EDVARDUS. / HIC. PRIMO. VEXILLUM. PROPOSUIT. / XIX. DIE. AUGUSTI. A.D. MDCCXLV. / GENEROSI. ARDORIS. CONSTANTISSIMÆ. FIDEI. / ET. PRÆCLARÆ. VIRTUTIS / SUÆ. GENTIS. ALIORUMQUE. MONTICOLARUM. / QUI. IN. NOBILI. ILLO. QUAMVIS. INFAUSTO. / PRINCIPIS. INCEPTO, / SANGUINEM. PROFUDERINT. / UT. ALIQUID. EXTARE T-MONUMENTI. / HANC. COLUMNAM. / IPSI. EHEU. TUNC. MORITURO. BREVI. / FUTURAM. MONUMENTUM. / A.D. MDCCCXIII PONI. CURABAT. / ALEXANDER MAC DONALD DE GLENALADALE / HUJUS. AGRI. DOMINUS. / LECTISSIMUS. ORNATISSIMUSQUE, JUVENIS. / INIQUO. FATO. CORREPTUS. / IMMATURE. OBIT. / Æ TATIS. ANNO. XXVIII. / IV. DIE. JANUARII. MDCCCXV.; exterior Panel (Gaelic): PHIR ASDAIR / M'AS MIANN LEAT LUAIDH / AIR SGEUL AINMEIL NAN LAITHEAN A THRÉIG, / THIG DLÙTH, AGUS DEAN UMHLACHD! / SO AM BALL / AN D'FHOILLSICH PRIONNS TEARLACH A BHRATACH, / 'NUAIR A SGAOIL AM FIREUN ÒG A SGIATHAN, / AM MÒRCHUIS ANAMA, / A CHOSNADH NA RIOGHACHD A CHAILL ATHAIRICHEAN; / AGUS A THILG E E FÉIN / GUN CHÒMHNAIDH GUN CHARAID, / AN UCHD FIUGHANTACH NAM FLATH MEAMNACH, / 'S NAN LAOCH TREUN, / A THOGAIR ÉIRIGH GUN ATHADH, / A DHIOL A CHÒRACH NO CHALL A BHEATHA. / MAR CHUIMHNE / AIR AN RIOGHLACHD, AN DILLSEACHD, AGUS / AN ORUADAL, / ANNS GACH GÀBHADH A LEAN. / CHAIDH AN TUR SO A THOGAIL / LEIS AN OG UASAL URRAMACH / ALASDOIR DOMHNULLACH, TRIATH GHLENNEALADAIL / CEANN UIDHE NA FÉILE; / A CHAOCHAIL BEATHA AN DUNEIDINN, / BLEADHNA MDCCCXV. / 'AN TÙS ÀIDH.; exterior Panel (English): ON THE SPOT WHERE / PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD / FIRST RAISED HIS STANDARD, / ON THE XIX. DAY OF AUGUST, MDCCXLV, / WHEN HE MADE THE DARING AND ROMANTIC ATTEMPT / TO RECOVER A THRONE LOST BY THE IMPRUDENCE OF HIS ANCESTORS; / THIS COLUMN WAS ERECTED BY / ALEXANDER MACDONALD ESQUIRE OF GLENALADALE, / TO COMMEMORATE THE GENEROUS ZEAL, / THE UNDAUNTED BRAVERY, AND THE INVIOLABLE FIDELITY / OF HIS FOREFATHERS, AND THE REST OF THOSE / WHO FOUGHT AND BLED IN THAT / ARDUOUS AND UNFORTUNATE ENTERPRIZE. / THIS PILLAR IS NOW, / ALAS! / ALSO BECOME THE MONUMENT / OF ITS AMIABLE AND ACCOMPLISHED FOUNDER, / WHO, / BEFORE IT WAS FINISHED, / DIED IN EDINBURGH ON THE IV. DAY OF JANUARY, / MDCCCXV. / AT THE EARLY AGE OF XXVIII. YEARS.; marble panel (interior): ON THE SPOT WHERE / PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART / FIRST RAISED HIS STANDARD, / ON THE XIX. DAY OF AUGUST, MDCCXLV, / WHEN HE MADE THE DARING AND GALLANT ATTEMPT, / TO RECOVER A THRONE, LOST BY HIS ANCESTORS. / THIS COLUMN WAS ERECTED BY / ALEXANDER MACDONALD ESQUIRE OF GLENALADALE, / TO COMMEMORATE THE GENEROUS ZEAL, / THE UNDAUNTED BRAVERY, AND THE INVIOLABLE FIDELITY / OF HIS FOREFATHERS, AND THE REST OF THOSE / WHO FOUGHT AND BLED IN THAT / ARDUOUS AND UNFORTUNATE ENTERPRIZE. / THIS PILLAR IS NOW, / ALAS! / ALSO BECOME THE MONUMENT / OF IT'S AMIABLE AND ACCOMPLISHED FOUNDER / WHO / BEFORE IT WAS FINISHED, / DIED IN EDINBURGH ON THE IV. DAY OF JANUARY, / MDCCCXV. / AT THE EARLY AGE OF XXVIII. YEARS.