GAIRLOCH (Gaelic gedrr,

See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short)  , a sea loch, village and parish in the west of the county of Ross and Cromarty, Scotland . Pop. of parish (1901) 3797 . The parish covers a large district on the coast, and stretches inland beyond the farther banks of Loch Maree, the whole of which lies within its bounds . It also includes the islands of Dry and Horisdale in the loch, and Ewe in Loch Ewe, and occupies a total area of 200,646 acres . The place and loch must not be confounded with Gareloch in Dumbartonshire . Formerly an appanage of the earldom of Ross, Gairloch has belonged to the Mackenzies since the end of the 15th century . Flowerdale, an 18th-century house in the pretty little glen of the same name, lying close to the village, is the chief seat of the Gairloch branch of the clan Mackenzie . William Ross (1762-1790), the Gaelic poet, who was schoolmaster of Gairloch, of which his mother was a native, was buried in the old kirkyard, where a monument commemorates him .