Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Dornoch. You may be able to find further references to Dornoch in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dornoch	a coast town	Groome
Dornoch Firth	inlet of the North Sea	Bartholomew
Dornoch, Firth of	the estuary of the river Oikel	Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Dornoch.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Achavandra	hamlet	Bartholomew
Achavandra	a hamlet	Groome
Achvaich	a small strath	Groome
Achvaich	small strath	Bartholomew
Cairnaig or Carnach	a rivulet	Groome
Clashmore	place with inn	Bartholomew
Embo	fishing village	Bartholomew
Embo	a fishing village, with a public school	Groome
Evelix	a stream	Groome
Rhiarchar	place with school	Bartholomew
Skelbo Castle	ancient seat	Bartholomew
Skelbo Castle	the ancient seat of the Sutherlands	Groome
Skibo Castle	a modern mansion	Groome
Skibo Castle	seat	Bartholomew
Strath Carnach	valley	Bartholomew
The Poles		Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Dornoch within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Thomas Pennant	Appendix V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland	5
Thomas Pennant	August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle	2
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	1
Thomas Pennant	August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Embo	0	2
Skelbo	0	2
Littleferry	0	2
Skibo	0	2
Tain	3	2
Culmaily	0	1
Edderton	0	2
Balblair	0	2
Golspie	0	2
Tarbat	2	2
Dunrobin	0	2
Fearn	0	2
Portmahomack	0	2
Logie Easter	0	1
Balnagown	0	2
Kildary	0	2
Rogart	0	2
Milton	0	2
Doll	0	1
Tarbat House	0	2