Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dores	a village and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Aldourie	the seat	Groome
Ashey or Ashie	a lake	Groome
Ashey, or Ashie	lake	Bartholomew
Dundardil	hill	Bartholomew
Dundardil	an ancient fort	Groome
Dun.Riehuan	ancient fort	Bartholomew
Farigaig	a troutful stream	Groome
Farraline, Loch	a lake	Groome
Gortlech (or Gorthlick)	hamlet	Bartholomew
Gortlech or Gorthlick	a hamlet	Groome
Ness Castle	seat	Bartholomew
Stratherrick	school	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 Dores 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 II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray	3

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
Bona	0	2
Duntelchaig	0	2
Dochgarroch	0	2
Dunlichity	0	2
Dunain	0	1
Urquhart	0	6
Kirkhill	0	2
Drumnadrochit	0	2
The Aird	0	2
Ness	0	3
Kiltarlity	0	2
Beaufort Castle	0	2
Inverness	61	3
Lovat	0	2
Clachnaharry	0	2
Beauly	0	2
Kilmorack	0	2
North Kessock	0	2
Daviot	0	3
Eilean Aigas	0	2