Tongue, Sutherland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Tongue parish Bartholomew
Tongue a village and a coast parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Ben Hutig a mountain Groome
Ben Hutig, or Thutaig hill Bartholomew
Ben Loyal or Ben Laoghal a mountain Groome
Borgie river Bartholomew
Borgie a river Groome
Craggie loch Bartholomew
Craggie or Creagach a loch Groome
Cullisaid small loch Bartholomew
Cullisaid or Cuil na Sith a loch Groome
Derry or Loch an Dithreibh a lake Groome
Ellan-na-Coomb or Ellan-na-Naoimh a small island Groome
Ellan-nan-Ron an inhabited island Groome
Kinloch Lodge Bartholomew
Kyle of Tongue narrow sea-loch Bartholomew
Melness a hamlet Groome
Melness village Bartholomew
Rabbit Islands 3 islands Bartholomew
Rabbit Islands three islets Groome
Roan island Bartholomew
Skerray hamlet Bartholomew
Talmine hamlet Bartholomew
Varrich Castle ruin Bartholomew
Whiten Head a towering white headland Groome

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 Tongue 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 4

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
Castle Varrich 2 2
Rabbit Islands 1 2
Skerray 1 1
Eilean Nan Ron 1 2
Coomb Island 2 2
Naver 8 3
Whiten Head 1 2
Borve 1 1
Langdale 1 0
Skail 1 0
Eriboll 3 3
Kirtomy 1 1
Farr 4 2
Armadale 0 1
Durness 4 3
Mudale 1 2
Altnaharra 0 2
Strathy 5 1
Halladale 2 2
Portskerra 0 1

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
TONGUE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
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.