Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Foyers, Falls of

Foyers, Falls of, near mouth of river Foyers, on E. side of Loch Ness, Inverness-shire; the lower fall was pronounced by Professor Wilson to be "the most magnificent cataract in Britain;" the River Foyers flows 9 miles N. to Loch Ness, 10½ miles NE. of Fort Augustus; on the right bank, at its mouth (on the site of the "General's Hut"), is Foyers Hotel, with steamboat jetty; on the left bank is Foyers House.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Administrative units: Inverness Shire ScoCnty
Place names: FALLS OF FOYERS     |     FOYERS     |     FOYERS FALLS OF
Place: Foyers

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