Where is this tune written down Kate?
Oh, it's actually already in the DunGreen Collection, but I'm revising. I never actually had that particular Five MacDonald's LP in my hands before yesterday, so I hadn't realized the tune was on any recording by that name. I had thought maybe it was a made up name to sound similar to "Bridge of Bamore" because the two tunes are similar. Well, it still could be a made up name. Or maybe Dan R. MacDonald made the tune and nobody knows it; he was in Scotland so he did use some Scottish place names in tune titles. I don't know of an Arrochar in Nova Scotia. Some names aren't on the maps anymore though.
Just because I read it that way - phonetically - I would like to propose that Arrochar is really Arichat, and that the bridge is the one over Lennox Passage from Louisdale to Arichat. Given local dialects and someone writing down what they heard, not what they saw, it's as good a possibility as any other.
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