MacDonell behaviour in court, but the MacDonell leadership wouldn't turn up, so in 1602, the MacKenzies laid waste to Morar as punishment. This led to the MacDonells waging battle against the MacKenzies in the Battle of Morar. Later history Many houses in the area were used as training schools by the Special Operations Executive during World War II. The Land, Sea and Islands Centre in Arisaig has a display on the connection between SOE and the area and has published a book on the subject. Morar Beach served as a location in the 1983 film Local Hero. It was also used in filming Highlander (1986) as the location for the scene in which Ramirez and Connor race along the beach. In the 1995 movie, Rob Roy Morar was used as the location for one of Rob Roy's homes. Notable people Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c.1698-1770), an officer and Gaelic tutor to Prince Charles Edward Stuart during the Jacobite rising of 1745 and poet who wrote many immortal works of Scottish Gaelic literature, spent the last years of his life near Morar as the local Tacksman of Clan MacDonald of Clanranald. After moving permanently to the area, the poet, a recent convert from Protestantism to the still illegal and underground Catholic Church in Scotland, composed a poem in praise of the priests and students at the clandestine minor seminary in nearby Buorblach. Rt.-Rev. Angus Bernard MacEachern (1759-1835), later the first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlottetown, studied for the priesthood during that same era at the minor seminary at nearby Buorblach. BBC weather forecaster Carol Kirkwood (b.1962), is a native of Morar. Fr. Alexander Macdonnell (1762-1840), a descendant of Clan MacDonald of Glengarry, was received his educated at the clandestine minor seminary at Buorblach, before being sent to continue his priestly training in Spain at the Royal Scots College in Valladolid. After his ordination, Fr. Macdonnell went on to become the first Roman Catholic military chaplain in post-Reformation British military history and the first Bishop of the Diocese of Kingston, in the Canadian Gaelic-speaking immigrant community of Glengarry County, Ontario. Morar was, for many years, the home of Fougasse. See also Loch Morar References External links Breaking the Waves filming locations Local Hero filming locations West Highland Railway Mallaig Extension Populated places in Lochaber National scenic areas of Scotland