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GAIRLOCH (Gaelic gedrr, short)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 390 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GAIRLOCH (Gaelic gedrr, See also:short)  , a See also:sea See also:loch, See also:village and See also:parish in the See also:west of the See also:county of See also:Ross and See also:Cromarty, See also:Scotland . Pop. of parish (1901) 3797 . The parish covers a large See also:district on the See also:coast, and stretches inland beyond the farther See also:banks of Loch See also:Maree, the whole of which lies within its See also:bounds . It also includes the islands of Dry and Horisdale in the loch, and See also:Ewe in Loch Ewe, and occupies a See also:total See also:area of 200,646 acres . The See also:place and loch must not be confounded with Gareloch in See also:Dumbartonshire . Formerly an See also:appanage of the earldom of Ross, See also:Gairloch has belonged to the Mackenzies since the end of the 15th See also:century . Flowerdale, an 18th-century See also:house in the See also:pretty little glen of the same name, lying See also:close to the village, is the See also:chief seat of the Gairloch See also:branch of the See also:clan See also:Mackenzie . See also:William Ross (1762-1790), the Gaelic poet, who was schoolmaster of Gairloch, of which his See also:mother was a native, was buried in the old kirkyard, where a See also:monument commemorates him .

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