Tannahill's House

Wet and dreary again! It is getting depressing.

This is the house Robert Tannahill lived in from the time he was a baby until he died.
Tannahill - 1774-1810 - was a poet and weaver. He wrote more than 100 songs and poems. The famous 'Will You Go Lassie Go (or Wild Mountain Thyme) is an elegant variation of Tannahill's 'The Braes of Balquidder'. The melody for Waltzing Matilda was taken from Tannahill's song ' The Bonny Wood Of Craigielea',

The house had a thatched roof, but young vandals burned it down a few years ago and it wasn't replaced. Also a caretaker used to live in it but the windows are boarded up now. A few years before it was burned down it was rethatched. I used to stop on way home from work and watch it being done - fascinating.