KILLIECRANKIE

killiecrankie, a pass of perthshire, scotland, 33⁄4 m. n.n.w. of pitlochry by the highland railway. beginning close to killiecrankie station it extends southwards to the bridge of garry for nearly 11⁄2 m. through the narrow, extremely beautiful, densely wooded glen in the channel of which flows the garry. a road constructed by general wade in 1732 runs up the pass, and between this and the river is the railway, built in 1863. the battle of the 27th of july 1689, between some 3000 jacobites under viscount dundee and the royal force, about 4000 strong, led by general hugh mackay, though named from the ravine, was not actually fought in the pass. when mackay emerged from the gorge he found the highlanders already in battle array on the high ground on the right bank of the girnaig, a tributary of the garry, within half a mile of where the railway station now is. before he had time to form on the more open table-land, the clansmen charged impetuously with their claymores and swept his troops back into the pass and the garry. mackay lost nearly half his force, the jacobites about 900, including their leader. urrard house adjoins the spot where viscount dundee received his death-wound.