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    Ross-shire (/ˈrɒs.ʃaɪər/; Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Rois) is a historic county in the Scottish Highlands. The county borders Sutherland to the north and...
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    The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, the Duke of Albany's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, mainly associated with large areas...
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    Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire is a proposed constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic...
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    Tain (redirect from Tain, Ross-shire)
    Dhubhthaich [palə ˈɣuhɪç]) is a royal burgh and parish in the County of Ross, in the Highlands of Scotland. The name derives from the nearby River Tain...
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    Ross and Cromarty (Scottish Gaelic: Ros agus Cromba), also referred to as Ross-shire and Cromartyshire, is a variously defined area in the Highlands and...
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  • Shire (/ʃaɪər/, also /ʃɪər/) is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries such...
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    burgh. Several of the Ross-shire MacCullochs became Canons Regular of the Premonstratensian Order at Fearn Abbey in Ross-shire. Alexander MacCulloch of...
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    person most responsible for the mass evictions staged at Glencalvie, Ross-shire in 1845. A Gaelic-language poem denouncing Gillanders for the brutality...
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  • was 1,084 men, with drummers and pipers. This contained a company from Ross-shire, commanded by Captain Robert, Macleod of Cadboll. The crew of the Dutch...
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    later Lord Seaforth, as the 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot (or The Ross-shire Buffs) on 8 March 1793. First assembled at Fort George in July 1793, the...
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    needed] Inverness-shire is Scotland's largest county and the second largest in the UK as a whole after Yorkshire. It borders Ross-shire to the north, Nairnshire...
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    area encompassed, based on the pre-Reformation Diocese of Ross. Sir George Mackenzie's Ross-shire estates were transferred to Cromartyshire by a 1685 act...
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    "'Nigg harbour bid news to us' says Invergordon-based port authority". RossShire Journal. 4 March 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2020. "Nigg - Port Of Nigg"....
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    village, situated on Reiff Bay on the Ruhba Mòr peninsula, in western Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Reiff...
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  • Charlestown, Black Isle, in the Highland council area Charlestown, Wester Ross, part of Gairloch, in the Highland council area Charlestown, Moray, a location...
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    village, which is situated on the northern shore of the Cromarty Firth, in Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands, and is in the Scottish council area of Highland....
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  • National Trust for Scotland properties is a link page listing the cultural, built and natural heritage properties and sites owned or managed by the National...
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    borders Caithness and Moray Firth to the east, Ross-shire and Cromartyshire (later combined into Ross and Cromarty) to the south and the Atlantic to the...
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  • Ross-on-Wye, England Ross, Scotland, a region of Scotland and former earldom County of Ross, Scotland, also known as Ross-shire Ross, Arkansas Ross,...
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    Balnagown Castle (also Balnagowan)(Ross Castle) is beside the village of Kildary in Easter Ross, part of the Highland area of Scotland. There has been...
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  • Fearn, Ross-shire: Christian. Focus Publications. ——— (1995). Higher Ground: insights from the Psalms of Ascent (Psalms 120–134). Fearn, Ross-shire: Christian...
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    Cromartyshire (category Ross and Cromarty)
    comprising the medieval "old shire" around the county town of Cromarty and 22 enclaves and exclaves transferred from Ross-shire in the late 17th century....
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    is a Scottish clan, traditionally associated with Kintail and lands in Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands. Traditional genealogies trace the ancestors...
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    The following list includes all effective burghs in Scotland from the coming into force of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 55),...
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    Ross-shire IV IV18 Invergordon Ross-shire IV IV19, IV20 Tain Ross-shire IV IV21 Gairloch Ross-shire IV IV22 Achnasheen Ross-shire IV IV23 Garve Ross-shire...
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    name to a later earldom and to the counties of Ross-shire and, later, Ross and Cromarty. The name Ross allegedly derives from a Gaelic word meaning "headland"...
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  • Ross County can refer to: Ross County, Ohio, a region in the United States Ross County F.C., a Scottish football club Ross-shire, a county in Scotland...
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    ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 5 March 2023. "Late mother inspires Ross-shire teen's India dream". Ross-Shire Journal. 27 December 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2023. McKenzie...
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  • name and above the River Sgitheach, in the parish of Kiltearn in eastern Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands. Swordale is connected by road to the village of Evanton...
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    Easter Ross is well known for its towns: Tain, Invergordon, Alness and Dingwall. Black Isle Ross and Cromarty Ross-shire Wester Ross "Explore Easter Ross, Highlands...
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