Qualla: Doune https://qualla.com/doune en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Doune https://qualla.com/doune Doune: Introduction https://qualla.com/doune/ The story goes that a pistol made in Doune fired the first shot of the American War of Independence. The claim is unprovable, the way most foundation legends are, but it is not absurd. For nearly two centuries the burgh of Doune in Perthshire was famous across Europe for the quality of its pistols, beautifully balanced flintlocks with all-metal stocks engraved in Celtic patterns, prized by officers from Edinburgh to St Petersburg. The trade eventually died, undercut by cheaper production in Birmingham. The pistols survive in major museums, including the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, where they keep their old menace. And from there it is a short imaginative leap to Lexington, 1775, and a Doune flintlock cracking the morning air.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/p/doune-wp/gcvp-doune-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Doune: The Fort by the Waters https://qualla.com/doune/ *Doune* comes from the Scottish Gaelic *An Dun*, meaning the fort. The village sits in a tongue of land enclosed by the River Teith and the Ardoch Burn, within the parish of Kilmadock. The fort that gave the place its name is partly Roman: the small primary school stands today on...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/p/doune-wp/gcvp-doune-the-fort-by-the-waters.mp3 0:06 2 full Doune: The Castle on the Bend https://qualla.com/doune/ Doune is dominated by its castle. Built in the late 14th century by Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany and Regent of Scotland, the stronghold is a fortress and a manor house at once, its great tower-house and kitchen tower linked by a hall that has survived almost intact. Bonnie Prin...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/p/doune-wp/gcvp-doune-the-castle-on-the-bend.mp3 0:06 3 full Doune: Fairies, Hillclimbs and SAS Founders https://qualla.com/doune/ The folklore is strange and persistent. East of Doune, in a small wood above Doune Lodge called Ternishee, the old tales placed a meeting-ground of fairies. On the Fairy Knowe, a hillock on the right bank of the Ardoch, fairy dancing parties were recounted into living memory. A b...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/p/doune-wp/gcvp-doune-fairies-hillclimbs-and-sas-founders.mp3 0:06 4 full Doune: Names That Stayed https://qualla.com/doune/ The clan names that recur in Doune's parish records read like a roll-call of central Scotland: Campbell, Stewart, Ferguson, Morrison, McAlpine, McLaren, MacDonald, Mathieson, Cameron. In the 2001 census, 2.75 percent of residents could still speak Scottish Gaelic, a tiny but stub...

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