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Cairnaig or Carnach, a rivulet of Creich and Dornoch parishes, SE Sutherland. Rising at 800 feet above sea-level, it flows 11½ miles, southward and eastward, through Lochs Cracail Mor, Cracail Beag, and Buie, and falls into the river Fleet at Torroboll, 1½ mile above which a salmon-ladder, 378 yards long, enables salmon to ascend to Loch Buie, in spite of a fall more than 60 feet high.Ord. Sur., shs. 102, 103, 1881-78.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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Feature Description: | "a rivulet" (ADL Feature Type: "streams") |
Administrative units: | Dornoch ScoP Sutherland ScoCnty |
Place names: | CAIRNAIG | CAIRNAIG OR CARNACH | CARNACH |
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