heilan query

[Jock Scot]

Loch Lomond is on the Southern side of the highlands and I am not sure of the exact position of the Buchanan lands.Anyway, there is a geological fault line that runs more or less diagonally across the Loch about a quarter of the way up the loch(which runs, roughly North to South). I know this all sounds rather vague, but if you look at a map of Scotland and run a straight line from the West coast so that the line runs through the loch a quarter of the way up and continue that line so it goes through Perth and then straight on to the East coast, that is more or less the dividing line between the highlands and lowlands. Although in the old days I doubt that the clans were too bothered about all that.I suspect they drew a line that suited them at any given time and I suspect an East West line just North of Edinburgh and Glasgow would have suited most clans better.Hope this helps.