Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Glengulbin

Glengulbin, an alpine glen of Kilmonivaig and Laggan parishes, in the E of Lochaber, Inverness-shire, traversed by a stream which first, as the Amhainn Ossian, winds 3 ½ miles northward from Loch Ossian (1 ¾ mile x 3 furl.; 1269 feet) to Loch Gulbin (7 x 3 ¼ furl.; 1155 feet), and thence, as the Amhainn Ghuilbinn, runs 6 3/8 miles northward till, after a total descent of 650 feet, it falls into the Spean at a point 1 ¼ mile below that river's efflux from Loch Laggan.—Ord. Sur., shs. 54, 63, 1873.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "an alpine glen"   (ADL Feature Type: "valleys")
Administrative units: Laggan ScoP       Inverness Shire ScoCnty

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