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Durness (Scottish Gaelic: Diùranais) is a village and civil parish in the north-west Highlands of Scotland. It lies on the north coast of the country in the traditional county of Sutherland , around 120 miles (190 kilometres) north of Inverness .
The Durness Group is a geological group, a carbonate-dominated stratigraphic unit that forms a c. 170 km long narrow and discontinuous outcrop belt along the north-western coast of Scotland from the Isle of Skye and Loch Kishorn (on the mainland) in the south to Durness and Loch Eriboll in the north. [1]
Smoo Cave is a large combined sea cave and freshwater cave in Durness in Sutherland, Highland, Scotland.. The cave name, which was previously known as Smow(e) or Smo, [1] may originate from the Norse ' smjúga ' or ' smuga ', meaning a narrow cleft, or hole. [2]
The Mackays of Borley were a minor noble Scottish family and a branch of the ancient Clan Mackay, a Highland Scottish clan. Their territorial designation of Borley is a small village within the parish of Durness, in the modern-day county of Sutherland, Scotland
The scheme for classifying buildings in Scotland is: Category A: "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic; or fine, little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type." [1]
Clan Morrison is a Scottish clan. The Highland Clan Morrison is traditionally associated with the Isle of Lewis and Harris (Leòdhas) around Ness (Nis), Dun Pabbay, and Barvas (Barabhas), lands in Sutherland around Durness, and in North Uist. There are numerous Scottish clans, both Highland and Lowland, which use the surname Morison or Morrison.
Balnakeil is a hamlet in the parish of Durness, Sutherland, [1] Scottish Highlands, and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. It is on the north coast of Scotland around 3 ⁄ 4 mile (1.2 kilometres) northwest of Durness. The ruin of Balnakeil Church is a scheduled monument.
Kyle of Durness looking north towards Balnakeil Bay. Kyle of Durness is a coastal inlet on the north coast of Scotland in the county of Sutherland.It extends 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (9 kilometres) inland from Balnakeil and divides the Cape Wrath peninsula from the mainland. [1]