Glengollie, a glen in the S of Durness parish, Sutherland, traversed by a stream that, rising at an altitude of 1270 feet, winds 7 ¹/8 miles south-south-eastward till, after a descent of 1176 feet, it unites with two other streams, at the head of Strathmore, to form the river Hope. It is sung by the poet Donn as a favourite hunting-ground.—Ord. Sur., shs. 114, 109, 1880.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)