Editing Glencoe, Highland (section)

==History==
[[File:Mountain Rescue Centre - geograph.org.uk - 905070.jpg|thumb|Glencoe from the west]]
The village is on the site of the [[Massacre of Glencoe]] in 1692, in which 38 members of the Clan [[MacDonald of Glencoe]] were killed by forces acting on behalf of the government of King [[William III of England|William III]] following the [[Glorious Revolution]]. Treachery was involved, since the Clan had fed the soldiers and given them shelter for nearly two weeks before they turned on their hosts. The glen is sometimes poetically referred to as "The Weeping Glen", in reference to this incident,<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.timescolonist.com/life/travel/rick-steves-highlands-offers-taste-of-traditional-scotland-4679770|title=Rick Steves; Highlands offers taste of traditional Scotland|website=Victoria Times Colonist}}</ref> although the Glencoe name was already in place well before the time of the massacre, as the [[Scottish Gaelic language|Gaelic]] ''Gleann Comhann'', the ''Comhann'' element of which may predate the Gaelic language, its meaning being uncertain.<ref>Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach, 11 Sep 2007</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ainmean-aite.scot/placename/glencoe/|title=Glencoe/Gleann Comhann|publisher=[[Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba]]|accessdate=22 February 2021}}</ref>

The village occupies an area of the glen<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.snh.gov.uk/docs/B700234.pdf|title=Extract from Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No.374|access-date=14 Dec 2014}} See paragraph beginning “Glen Coe’s splendour is not diminished as it falls to sea level and meets Loch Leven”. The glen extends to Loch Leven, thereby encompassing Glencoe village.</ref><ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Glencoe |volume=12 |page=119}}  "Beginning at the north-eastern base of Buchaille Etive, it [the glen] takes a gentle north-westerly trend for 10 m. to its mouth on Loch Leven, a salt-water arm of Loch Linnhe.", again encompassing Glencoe village.</ref> known as Carnoch. Native Gaelic speakers who belong to the area always refer to the village itself as A' Chàrnaich, meaning "the place of cairns".<ref>Tron Bhogha-Froise - Sgeulachdan is Bardachd, Alasdair MacAonghais, Canan, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, An Teanga, Sleite, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach, (1999).</ref> Even today there is Upper Carnoch and Lower Carnoch. There was formerly a small hospital at the southern end of the village just over an arched stone bridge. This has since been converted into an upmarket guest house, and the nearest hospital is now the [[Belford Hospital|Belford]] in Fort William, some {{convert|26|km|miles}} away.