Kildonan, Sutherland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kildonan parish and railway station Bartholomew
Kildonan a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Allt-an-Fhearna a loch Groome
Alt-Torquil a streamlet Groome
Aricliny or Araich-lin a lake containing trout and char Groome
Ascaig a lake Groome
Ascaig small lake Bartholomew
Auchnahow strath Bartholomew
Auchnahow a small strath Groome
Baden or Baddanloch the third and most easterly of a chain of three lakes Groome
Baden, or Baddanloch loch Bartholomew
Ben Griam Bheag and Ben Griam Mhor two mountains Groome
Ben Griam Mhor and Ben Griam Bheag Bartholomew
Cuen loch with islets Bartholomew
Cuillie, or Culaidh small loch Bartholomew
Gartymore part of village Bartholomew
Glen Navidale glen Bartholomew
Helmsdale river Bartholomew
Helmsdale small seaport with railway station Bartholomew
Helmsdale a coast village Groome
Kinbrace railway station Bartholomew
Loch-an-Ruathair loch Bartholomew
Loch-nan-Cuinne loch Bartholomew
Navidale coastal district Bartholomew
Strath Ullie valley Bartholomew
Suisgill Burn affluent 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 Kildonan 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 2

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 Historical Gazetteer
Carn Bran 1 2
Kinbrace 2 1
Loth 5 2
Lothbeg 3 0
East Garty 1 0
Helmsdale 11 2
Navidale 1 2
Kilcalmkill 1 3
Clyne 1 2
Kintradwell 1 1
Clynemilton 1 0
Ord 7 2
Ousdale 2 2
Brora 6 2
Doll 1 1
Langwell 5 2
Berriedale 4 2
Dunrobin 9 2
Golspie 3 2
Strathmore 1 1

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Kildonan. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
KILDONAN John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
KILDONNAN Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.