Flourishing with picturesque beauty and legend, Sma’ Glen was mostly occupied by crofters who supplemented their income with weaving, cattle droving and illicit whisky stifling. It was through this glen that Malcolm III of Scotland (1058-93) marched to recover his kingdom from Macbeth, and many centuries later Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army also marched through, on their way to Culloden Moor in the mid-18th Century. More recently, the glen featured as the location of the athletics meeting in the film Chariots of Fire.
