The name "Glengallan" was given to the property by the Campbell brothers. Colin, John and Archibald, who, in 1841, took-up 42,000 acres of leases formerly held by the Darling Downs first settlers, the Leslie brothers of Canning Downs. The Campbells named their tract of land for a district in their homelands in the south-west of Scotland. The location of the original Glengallan, south of Oban, on the road to Campbelltown, is described as follows:  "The public road from Melfort, emerging from the pass, skirts the side of the River Oude for some miles, and at Blaran the entrance to the Corrie of Lorn is passed. A lonely mountain lake, Loch Tralaig, from which the Oude takes its rise, occupies the basin of the glen: the sloping hills surrounding it are known as the Braes of Lorn. From Blaran the road rapidly descends through a delightfully wooded ravine, called Glengallan, to the valley of Euchar, occupied by a river of the same name, which, after a meandering course of 3 miles, enters the sea at Kilninver, close to the mouth of Loch Feochan." ABOVE: Descending through a delightfully wooded ravine, the road descends to the Euchar Valley.

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