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3 unusual facts about Strathnaver


Huistean Du Mackay, 14th of Strathnaver

Huistean Du Mackay at this time had been residing at Castle Sinclair Girnigoe and had to flee for his life back to Strathnaver and the Gunns, realizing the Mackays could not protect them retired to Ross-shire only to be defeated at the Battle of Leckmelm by the Mackays of Aberach, MacLeods and Sutherlands.

Souterrain

An example of an excavated souterrain is the site at Rosal, Strathnaver, Sutherland.

Strathnaver

Highland Railway Loch Class - Number 132 of this class of railway engines was named Loch Naver


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Bettyhill

The Strathnaver Museum, probably better known as "The Mackay Museum", has an upstairs, older & larger section devoted to the ancient Clan Mackay.

Máel Ruba

According to local tradition, on his last journey he was killed by Danish vikings, probably at Teampull, around nine miles up the Strathnaver from Farr, where he had built a cell; and was buried near the River Naver, not far from his cell, where his grave is still marked by "a rough cross-marked stone".

Sir James Wood, 2nd Baronet

He was commissioned into the army of the States-General of the Netherlands on 31 December 1688, and served for many years, including as Governor of Dendermonde and later as a major in Strathnaver's regiment.


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