Dog, fox or wolf?
Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of place-names around our area In Gaelic cù means ‘dog’ while the word madadh may …
Heritage
Rosehall links with slavery
In Guyana’s Berbice region, a handful of interrelated families from the north Highlands were the first to build sugar-cane plantations.
Brothers in arms
Two world wars. Two war memorials. Two sets of siblings. Two Highland families: The Gordons and The Macleans.
Pat, the Irishman
W. A. M. MacKenzie remembers this local character and his horses, two big working Clydesdales used for clearing timber from the nearby forest
The hoeing match
Back in the 1940s and 50s, the hoeing of the turnip, a time-consuming and back breaking task was made into a competition, alternating each year …
The Scottish Rosswell?
An unidentified object thought to have been a Russian Sputnik satellite was found on the hillside near Ardgay in 1962 by a shepherd named Donald …
Stranded whales at Dornoch Firth
In October 1927, a school of more than a hundred whales was stranded in the Dornoch Firth near Ardgay and Bonar Bridge. Martin Alister Campbell …
Forests and Forestry People
An overview of the history of the forestry industry in the Kyle of Sutherland, by Norman Davidson, curator of the Forestry Memories website Many of …
Fifty shades of landscape
Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of placenames around our area There are two different words for grey in Scottish Gaelic: …
Horses
Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of placenames around our area Toponyms from the various names for horse are very common, …