Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Achany	a mansion	Groome
Doulas or Dulaich	a loch	Groome
Fiag or Fiodhaig	a rivulet	Groome
Fiodhaig	rivulet	Bartholomew
Loch-a'-Ghriama (Loch Griam)	loch	Bartholomew
Overscaig Hotel	an inn	Groome
Overscaig Inn		Bartholomew
Shin, Loch	a lake	Groome
Shin, Loch		Bartholomew
Shinness	school	Bartholomew
Strath Tirry	valley	Bartholomew
Tirry	rivulet	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 Lairg 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 V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland	1

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
Shin	0	4
Invershin	0	2
Creich	0	2
Culrain	0	2
Bonar Bridge	0	2
Rogart	0	2
Ardgay	0	2
Kincardine	0	2
Clyne	0	2
Skibo	0	2
Skelbo	0	2
Culmaily	0	1
Littleferry	0	2
Balblair	0	2
Edderton	0	2
Golspie	0	2
Kilcalmkill	0	3
Embo	0	2
Dunrobin	0	2
Dornoch	2	4