The Ben Lomond - Restaurant, Venue & Craft Shop

The award winning  Ben Lomond Restaurant, Venue, Craft Shop and Heritage Centre as featured in the Scottish Food Guide is built within the original Ballyhennan Church building. At the rear is the original graveyard. Within the graveyard are some original Viking graves.

	Situated in the original church building dating back to the 18th Century.
	Features the original stained glass window upstairs
	Original church graveyard can be visited to the rear.
	Original Viking graves can be seen in the graveyard
	An ideal location for photography
	Our speciality is Weddings and Functions

Arrochar is also the home of the clan MacFarlane; in the eighteenth century most of the inhabitants were MacFarlanes.  They got their name after a brave young grandson of Duncan of Arrochar, named Bartholomew, or in Gaelic Partholan.  This brave youth mustered the men of the place and prepared to oppose a Norse raider called Haco who had come down from the western isles to dispute their ownership with the Scottish King and a bitter battle was fought at Ballyhennan.  The Norsemen were beaten, chiefly to the inspiring heroism of the young Bartholomew, and such was the admiration of the Arrochar men for the bravery of their young leader that they ever after called themselves “MacPharlain” – the Children of Bartholomew.

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