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Corrieyairack Pass, There are many passes in Scotland, those syncopations in a geological theme that play
so many important roles in the history of human settlements. Some are famous: Glencoe and Killiecrankie con­jure up a vivid pageantry with little effort. Some others are, however, equally well deserving of fame, but tend to remain obscure and out of the public eye by their very inaccessibility.

The Corrieyairack Pass carries a road of sorts built by General Wade in 1732, running from Cullachy, just south of Fort Augustus on Loch Ness, to Dalwhinnie at the head of another pass, Drumochter. Much of the road follows the river Spey as it flows towards Newtonmore. The road was built primarily to allow easy movement of Government troops between the barracks then being constructed in the Highlands.
 

The road runs for 22 miles and was completed in about six months, a feat that would be impressive even today with sophisticated earth-moving machinery.
In a later century it was used extensively by drovers, herd­ing large numbers of cattle to the trysts or markets at Falkirk and Crief.