Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Tongue	a village and a coast parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ben Hutig	a mountain	Groome
Ben Hutig, or Thutaig	hill	Bartholomew
Ben Loyal or Ben Laoghal	a mountain	Groome
Borgie	river	Bartholomew
Borgie	a river	Groome
Craggie	loch	Bartholomew
Craggie or Creagach	a loch	Groome
Cullisaid	small loch	Bartholomew
Cullisaid or Cuil na Sith	a loch	Groome
Derry or Loch an Dithreibh	a lake	Groome
Ellan-na-Coomb or Ellan-na-Naoimh	a small island	Groome
Ellan-nan-Ron	an inhabited island	Groome
Kinloch Lodge		Bartholomew
Kyle of Tongue	narrow sea-loch	Bartholomew
Melness	a hamlet	Groome
Melness	village	Bartholomew
Rabbit Islands	3 islands	Bartholomew
Rabbit Islands	three islets	Groome
Roan	island	Bartholomew
Skerray	hamlet	Bartholomew
Talmine	hamlet	Bartholomew
Varrich Castle	ruin	Bartholomew
Whiten Head	a towering white headland	Groome

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 Tongue 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	4

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
Castle Varrich	0	2
Rabbit Islands	0	2
Skerray	0	1
Eilean Nan Ron	0	2
Coomb Island	0	2
Naver	0	3
Whiten Head	0	2
Borve	0	1
Eriboll	0	3
Kirtomy	0	1
Farr	0	2
Armadale	0	1
Durness	0	3
Mudale	0	2
Altnaharra	0	2
Strathy	0	1
Halladale	0	2
Portskerra	0	1
Melvich	0	2
Dalhalvaig	0	1