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Neaders: It's time to put this one to rest. It looks like my cousins are no longer able to maintain this cache. Thanks to all who found it. Slainte, Neaders

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Hidden : 4/8/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Ashton and I recently took a trip to the Isle of Skye, the land of our forefathers, The MacCrimmons. This was a dream come true for us so we decided to leave a cache behind to commemorate our visit!
Spike and Audrey of Borreraig Park will be looking out for this cache.
Be sure to drop into the Borreraig Park Museum and say hello to Spike and Audrey.

The cache is accessible from outside of the fence. There is no need to go near the flower beds by the flagpole.
If the logbook is damp, please inform Audrey or Spike inside the museum. Thanks

The cache is NOT located at the Cairn but by Borreraig Park Piping Museum.



The MacCrimmons, pipers to the MacLeods of Skye, were the most famous piping family in Scotland, and indeed in the Western world.
Pupils came from far and wide to receive tuition at their college at Boreraig, near Dunvegan. Some of their great pibrochs - for example, Lament for the Children - are now accounted musical treasures by international critics and musicologists. The repression of Gaelic culture which followed the battle of Culloden seriously harmed but did not destroy their inheritance. Ironically, the MacLeods were on the Hanoverian side in the '45, and the piper who prophesied his own death before leaving for the field was killed in a skirmish against soldiers of Prince Charlie.
At Borreraig on the Isle of Skye was raised a memorial cairn on which was inscribed in Gaelic: "The Memorial Cairn of the MacCrimmons, of whom ten generations were the hereditary pipers of MacLeod, and who were renowned as Composers, Performers, and Instructors in the Classical Music of the Bagpipe. Near this spot stood the MacCrimmon School of Music, 1500-1800." Hamish Henderson describes this song as "a folksong variant of a 19th century translation from the Gaelic." There is controversy as to why the poem was written, the translation I found reads:


MacCrimmon will never, will never return,
In war or in peace, he will come no more;
With riches or otherwise MacCrimmon will return not:
He will not come ever till the Gathering-day.

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