River Garry flowing into Loch Poluary

The River Garry (Scottish Gaelic: Garadh / Abhainn Gharadh) is a long river punctuated by a series of long Lochs, in Lochaber. Many of the Lochs are part of a 1960s hydroelectricity scheme. The river begins in The Rough Bounds, and proceeds into Loch Quoich, from where it heads east until it joins the River Kingie at the Kingie Pool. From there it flows into Loch Poulary, and thence to Loch Garry. The final section is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) long, and runs into Loch Oich (part of the Great Glen) just east of the village of Invergarry, through which it runs.

Loch Polulary is an expansion of the River Garry between Loch Quoich and Loch Garry. Loch Poulary was created as a result of damming the river as part of the Garry-Moriston Hydro-Electric Power Scheme.


Loch Poluary with Gairich beyond

The mountain beyond the River Garry is Gairich, situated on the southern side of Loch Quoich between Glen Kingie and Glen Garry in the Lochaber district, 25 kilometres north-northwest of Fort William.

With a height of 919 metres (3015 feet), Gairich qualifies as a Munro (Scottish mountain over 3000 feet) by just four metres. Despite its relatively low height the mountain is rough and quite isolated with a substantial prominence of 552 metres and is conspicuous in the view up Glen Garry. The mountain was initially named Scour Gairoch on the original 1891 list of Munros and is still occasionally called this, however it is now referred to generally as Gairich which translates from the Gaelic as “roaring" or Peak of "Yelling”and is believed to refer to the roaring of stags in the rutting season.