In Fiction
"Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
According to Don Rosa, Castle McDuck, the ancestral home of Scrooge McDuck's family, the Clan McDuck is located in Dismal Downs somewhere on Rannoch Moor.
In DC Comics' Swamp Thing Rannoch Moor was the site of MacCobb castle, home of the werewolf Ian MacCobb.
In the 1996 film Trainspotting, Tommy and the gang get off an Intercity train to "get some fresh air" on a hike at Corrour railway station, which is located on Rannoch Moor.
In The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson, Rufus MacIan says "On the Muir of Rannoch, they grow braw, or they grow na at all".
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