Well Of The Seven Heads Monument, Invergarry is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Well Of The Seven Heads Monument, Invergarry
- WRENN ID
- slow-rotunda-rain
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NN 304 991
- Coordinates
- 57.05203, -4.79656
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Well of the Seven Heads Monument is an 1812 monument built of polished ashlar. It consists of a square, corniced plinth on a moulded base, supporting a short, panelled obelisk topped with a finial made up of seven masks surmounted by a stone hand gripping an iron dagger. An inscription is present on the plinth, written in Latin, English, French, and Gaelic.
The monument was erected in 1812 by Colonel McDonnell of Glengarry, commemorating an event in 1663 when the two sons of the 12th MacDonald of Keppoch were murdered. Following the subsequent tracing and killing of seven murderers at Inverlair, near Tulloch, in 1665, their heads were washed in a spring by the monument before being presented to the Chief at Invergarry Castle. The monument is located near Loch Oich.
Local climate
Well Of The Seven Heads Monument, Invergarry sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,600 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 73 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 55 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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