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The Well of The Seven Heads can be found 1.8 kilometres south of Invergarry, along the west shore of Loch Oich. Erected by Colonel MacDonnel of Glengarry in 1812, the obelisk which can be seen from the photograph, sits above the well, and commemorates a gruesome past.

In 1663, two sons of the Chief of MacDonnel were murdered during a quarrel with an uncle and his six sons. The murderers' deaths were ordered in vengeance for the crime, and sixty men arrived at the house of the seven, to carry out the execution. Their heads were removed from their bodies and washed in this spring, before being taken to the Chief in Invergarry. Ever since this event, the spring had been known as 'Tobar-nan-ceann', 'The Well of the Heads'.

The Gaelic inscription, seen on the front of the obelisk, tells the story of the well, and on the top of the monument is a sculpture of the seven heads of the murderers

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