Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Cairnaig or Carnach

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)

Linked entities:
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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