Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kildonan	a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Allt-an-Fhearna	a loch	Groome
Alt-Torquil	a streamlet	Groome
Aricliny or Araich-lin	a lake containing trout and char	Groome
Ascaig	a lake	Groome
Ascaig	small lake	Bartholomew
Auchnahow	strath	Bartholomew
Auchnahow	a small strath	Groome
Baden or Baddanloch	the third and most easterly of a chain of three lakes	Groome
Baden, or Baddanloch	loch	Bartholomew
Ben Griam Bheag and Ben Griam Mhor	two mountains	Groome
Ben Griam Mhor and Ben Griam Bheag		Bartholomew
Cuen	loch with islets	Bartholomew
Cuillie, or Culaidh	small loch	Bartholomew
Gartymore	part of village	Bartholomew
Glen Navidale	glen	Bartholomew
Helmsdale	river	Bartholomew
Helmsdale	small seaport with railway station	Bartholomew
Helmsdale	a coast village	Groome
Kinbrace	railway station	Bartholomew
Loch-an-Ruathair	loch	Bartholomew
Loch-nan-Cuinne	loch	Bartholomew
Navidale	coastal district	Bartholomew
Strath Ullie	valley	Bartholomew
Suisgill Burn	affluent	Bartholomew

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 Kildonan 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	2

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 Hist. Gazetteer
Carn Bran	0	2
Kinbrace	0	1
Loth	0	2
Helmsdale	0	2
Navidale	0	2
Kilcalmkill	0	3
Clyne	0	2
Kintradwell	0	1
Ord	0	2
Ousdale	0	2
Brora	0	2
Doll	0	1
Langwell	0	2
Berriedale	0	2
Dunrobin	0	2
Golspie	0	2
Strathmore	0	1
Culmaily	0	1
Rogart	0	2
Dunbeath	0	2