Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 5

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than 1 furlong broad, before it reaches the open waters
of the firth. Its fishing is poor — some trout, roach,
pike, and eels above, with sea-trout, herling, and occa-
sional salmon below. — Orel. Sur., shs. 10, 6, 1864-63.
Locharbriggs, a village in the N of Dumfries parish,
Dumfriesshire, near the right bank of Lochar Water,
with a station on the Dumfries and Lockerbie section of
the Caledonian railway, 2| miles NNE of Dumfries.
It adjoins a rising-ground, which superstition long
regarded as a trysting-place of witches. Pop. (1881)
306.
Loch Arohaig, etc. See Archaic, etc.
Lochawe, a station of the Callander and Oban railway
(18S0), in Ardchattan parish, Argyllshire, at the SE
base of Ben Cruachan, and on the NW shore of Loch
Awe towards its foot, 22 miles E of Oban and 2i W of
Dalmally, under which there is a post office. Here also
are a steamboat pier, a fine hotel (1881) in the >Scottish
Baronial style, and St Conan's Established chapel of
ease (1883). —OrcZ. Sur., sh. 45, 1876.
Loch Bay, a bay in Duirinish parish, Isle of Skye,
Inverness-shire, deflecting from the E side of Loch
Dunvegan, and striking 3 miles south-eastward into
the middle part of Vaternish peninsula. It lies exposed
to N"W winds, yet affords good anchorage in ordinary
weather.
Lochbroom, a coast parish of NW Ross and Cromarty,
whose church stands at the head of salt-water Loch
Broom, 6 miles SSE of Ullapool, 26 NW of Garve
station, and SSJ NW by W of DingwaU, under which
there is a post office, with money order, savings' bank,
and telegraph departments. Containing also Ullapool
village, it is bounded NE by Assynt in Sutherland, E
by Kincardine and Contin, SE by Contiu, SW by Gair-
loeh, and W by the North Minch. Its utmost length,
from N to S, is 29J miles ; its utmost breadth, from E
to W, is 20 J miles ; and its area is 41 3| square miles, or
264,7951 acres, of which 10,425f are water, 69i tidal
water, and 1832 foreshore. It thus is the third largest
parish in Scotland, exceeded only by Kilmallie and
Kilmonivaig, and larger than the whole county of Mid-
lothian. The coast is much indented by Enard Bay,
Loch Broom, Little Loch Broom, and Gkeinord Bay ;
' projects the bold headlands of Eudha na Breige (302
feet), Khu Coigach (263), Cailleach Head (370), and
Stattic Point (607) ; and is fringed by Tanera, Isle
Martin, Greinord, and other islands. On tlie Suther-
land border lies Loch Veyatie (4 miles x 1 to 3J furl. ;
390 feet), sending off the Uidh Fhearua 9 furlongs west-
north-westward to Fewin or Fionn Loch (2 J miles x 3
furl. ; 357 feet), out of which the Kirkais runs 3| miles
west-north-westward to the sea. FiONN Loch (6| miles
X I furl, to 1.^ mile ; 559 feet) sends oK the Little
Greinord 5J miles north-by-eastward along the Gair-
loch boundary to the head of Greinord Bay ; and Loch
Droma (1| X J mile ; 905 feet) sends ofl' the Abhuinn
Droma or Broom 10 miles north -north-westward to
the head of Loch Broom. Other freshwater lakes are
triangular Loch Gainmheich (7 x 6^ furl. ; 251 feet),
isleted Loch Skinaskink (3 miles x 70 yards to 2^ miles;
243 feet). Loch na Doire Seirbhe (IJ x J mile ; 222
feet), the chain of Lochs Lurgain (3g mUes x 4J furl. ;
173 feet). Bad a' Ghaill (2 miles x | mile), and Owskeich
(If X i mile; 72 feet). Loch Achall (1| mile x 3
furl. ; 265 feet), and Loch an Daimh (1| mile x IJ
furl. ; 672 feet), all to the N of Loch Broom ; with Loch
a' Bhraoin (2| miles x 2^ furl. ; 813 feet) and Loch na
Sheallag (4| miles x 5 furl. ; 279 feet) to the S. From
the latter the Meikle Greinord flows SJ miles north-
north-westward to the western side of Greinord Bay ;
and the Strathbeg river, rising at an altitude of 2240
feet, winds 12-^ miles north -by-westward to the head of
Little Loch Broom. Lesser streams and lakes there are
without number, all, like the above, yielding capital
fishing. The surface is everywhere hilly or wUdly
mountainous, chief elevations from N to S being Cul
Mhor (2786 feet), An Stac (2009), Cul Beag (2523),
Besmore-Coigach (2438), Beinn Eilideach (1830),
Meall Dubh (2105), Eididh nan Clach Geala (3039),
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*Ben Deaeg (3547), Sail Mhor (2508), An Teallach
(3483), Sgurr Ban (3194), and *A' Chailleach (3276),
where asterisks mark two summits that culminate on the
Contin boundary. ' To a spectator placed on a central
eminence the appearance is that of a wide and dreary
waste of bleak and barren heath, as if a segment of the
great ocean, agitated and tossed and tumbled, not
by an ordinary storm, however violent, but by some
frightful convulsion of nature, with here and there a
rude and lofty peak of rugged rock towering to the
skies, had been suddenly condensed and formed into a
solid shapeless mass of unproductive desert, without one
spot of green on which to rest the eye. ' But much of
the vales, the seaboard, and the shores of the salt-water
inlets exhibit delightful blendings of wood and water,
fertile field, and green hill pasture, luxuriant lowland,
and lofty romantic mountains, and is brilliantly pictur-
esque. Metamorphic rocks, chiefl}' gneiss, but partly
granite, partly quartzite, predominate in the mountains.
Quartz is in places plentiful ; Old Red sandstone prevails
in Coigach, in some other parts of the mainland, and in
most of the islands ; limestone appears in Strathbeg ;
bog iron ore occurs in great quantity on Scorrig Farm ;
and mineral springs, chiefly of a chalybeate character,
are numerous. The soil is exceedingly various, but on
much of the arable land is light, sharp, gravelly loam.
The adjoining estates of Braemore and Inverbroom were
purchased in 1865-67 by the eminent engineer, John
Fowler, Esq. (b. 1817), who holds 39,530 acres in Ross
and 7618 in Inverness-shire, valued at £2995 and
£760 per annum. At Braemore, 4 miles S by E
of the parish church, he built a handsome mansion in
1866-68, and he has planted 1200 acres along the river
Broom with larch and Scotch firs, besides doing much in
the way of draining, fencing, reclaiming, road and bridge
making, etc. Another mansion, noticed separately, is
DuNDONNELL ; and, in all, 5 proprietors hold each an
annual value of £500 and upwards, 3 of between £100 and
£500, 1 of from £50 to £100, and 3 of from £20 to £50.
Sir George Simson (1792-1860), governor of the Hudson's
Bay Company's Territories, was a native. The only
anticjuities are several round drystone buildings of the
kind called ' duns.' Loch Broom gives name to one of
the twenty-five fishery districts of Scotland. Within
this district the number of boats at the beginning of
1883 was 703, of fishermen 2337, of fishcurers 24, and of
coopers 4, whilst the value of boats was £8844, of nets
£15,240, and of lines £2191. The following is the
number — of barrels of herrings cured or salted in different
years (1854) 1328, (1874) 3070, (1878) 13,282, (1881)
4418, (1882) 1126 ; of cod, ling, and hake taken (1854)
117,194, (1874) 43,880, (1878) 70,388, (1882) 53,273.
Since 1859, giving off the quoad sacra parish of Ulla-
pool, Lochbroom is in the presbytery of Lochcarron and
the synod of Glenelg ; the living is worth £468. The
parish chm'ch, built in 1844, is amply commodious.
Ten public schools, with total accommodation for 749
children, had (1882) an average attendance of 417, and
grants amounting to £508, lis. 6d. Valuation (1860)
£9329, (1884) £15,250, 18s. 3d. Pop. (1801) 3533,
(1831) 4615, (1861) 4862, (1871) 4406, (1881) 4191, of
whom 3726 were Gaelic-speaking, and 1618 were in the
ecclesiastical parish. — Ord. Sur., shs. 101, 92, 1882-81.
Loch Brora, etc. See Brora, etc.
Lochbuy, a hamlet in Torosay parish. Mull island,
Argyllshire, at the head of salt-water Loch Buy, 12
miles SW of Auchnacraig. It has a post office under
Oban, with money order and savings' bank departments,
an Episcopal church, St Kilda's (1876 ; 50 sittings), in
13th century Gothic, and a pre-Reformation chapel,
which, lately roofed in, now serves as the mausoleum of
the Maclaines, possessors of the lands of Lochbuy for
more than five hundred years. Their present repre-
sentative, Murdoch Gillian Maclaine (b. 1845 ; sue.
1863), is chief of the clan, and holds 26,843 acres,
valued at £2067 per annum. His seat, Lochbuy House,
is a spacious and handsome mansion, commanding a
fine view. See Buy.
Lochcarron, a coast parish of SW Ross-shire, con-