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Morvern is a peninsula in south west Lochaber, on the west coast of Scotland. The name is derived from the Gaelic ''A' Mhorbhairne'' (the Sea-Gap). The highest point is the summit of the Corbett Creach Bheinn which reaches in elevation. Morvern is approximately with a current population of about 320. ==History== Morvern was formerly known as Kinelvadon, which William J. Watson takes to be from ''Cineal Bhaodain'', that is that lands of the Cenél Báetáin, a division of the Cenél Loairn named after Báetán, a putative great-grandson of Loarn mac Eirc. The ''Senchus fer n-Alban'' states that "Baotan has twenty houses". The ruined Ardtornish Castle was in the possession of Somerled in the 12th century and then the Lords of the Isles, whose ownership was recalled in a poem of the same name by Sir Walter Scott. Kinlochaline Castle was once the seat of the MacInnes clan. It was largely destroyed by the army of Oliver Cromwell and restored in 1890. Before the Highland clearances the population of Morvern was about 2500. The history of the parish of Morvern in the 19th century has been detailed in Philip Gaskell's ''Morvern Transformed''. Some residents of St Kilda were relocated to Lochaline, the main village of Morvern, when the island was evacuated in 1930. On 19th- and early 20th-century Ordnance Survey maps, Morvern is spelled "Morven".〔http://maps.nls.uk/view/74489284〕〔http://maps.nls.uk/view/74489285〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Morvern」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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