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East Corrie Cave

Beinn Dorainn, Argyllshire.

Supposed cave where Duncan Ban composed poetry. Location not known.

Ten years later [1802] Duncan Ban [McIntyre] paid his last visit to his favourite mountain from Edinburgh. "A change had struck the very hill"; "sheep were all that I could see . . . there was not left one antlered stag." He is said to have composed some of his finest verses in a natural cave in the great east-facing corrie of the Ben. [Cairngorm Journal]

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: It should be remembered that climbers (and poets) have a different vocabulary to cavers and the climbing definition of a cave may not be an actual cave (sometimes it can be a cleft or overhang, sometimes a boulder ruckle or rockshelter).