Gairloch, Ross and Cromarty : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Gairloch parish Bartholomew
Gairloch a coast village Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Inverasdale hamlet Bartholomew
Inverewe House seat Bartholomew
Kerry river Bartholomew
Kerrysdale, Pass of narrow wooded ravine Bartholomew
Kinlochewe hamlet with inn Bartholomew
Laide place with school Bartholomew
Letterewe shooting-lodge Bartholomew
Lochan Fada loch Bartholomew
Loch Bad-an-Sgalaig loch Bartholomew
Loch Clair loch Bartholomew
Loch Garavaig (Garbhaig) loch Bartholomew
Lochmaree inn Bartholomew
Longa island Bartholomew
Maree, Loch Bartholomew
Meall Garavaig hill Bartholomew
Melloncharles village Bartholomew
Mellonudrigle village Bartholomew
Melvaig coastal village Bartholomew
Opinan hamlet with school Bartholomew
Red Point headland Bartholomew
Rudh' Re headland Bartholomew
Sand school Bartholomew
Talladale rivulet Bartholomew
Tollie, Loch Bartholomew

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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
Poolewe 0 2
Eilean Maree 0 3
Aultbea 0 2
Laide 0 1
Gruinard 0 2
Torridon 0 2
Shieldaig 0 2
Rona 3 2
Kinlochewe 0 2
Dundonnell 0 2
Staffin 0 3
Applecross 1 2
Lochbroom 0 2
Carron 1 4
Summer Isles 0 2
Ullapool 0 2
Lochcarron 0 4
Attadale 0 1
Raasay 26 2
Snizort 1 4

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
GAIRLOCH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
GEARR LOCH F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).

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.