Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Farigaig

Farigaig, a troutful stream of the Nairnshire portion of Daviot parish, and of Dores parish, NE Inverness-shire. It is formed, 840 feet above sea-level, and 1 mile NE of Dunmaglass Lodge, by the confluence of two head-streams, the longer of which, the Allt Uisg an tSithein, rises at an altitude of 2500 feet, and runs 6¾ miles north-by-westward. From their point of confluence the Farigaig winds 8¼ miles north-north-westward and south-westward, till it falls into Loch Ness at Inverfarigaig, 2¼ miles NNE of Foyers. It receives a rivulet running ¾ mile west-by-southward from Loch Ruthven (2¼ miles x 41/3 furl.; 700 feet), and it traverses a deep and finely wooded defile.—Ord. Sur., sh. 73,


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a troutful stream"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Dores ScoP       Inverness Shire ScoCnty       Nairnshire ScoCnty

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