Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Cassley

Cassley, a small river of Creich parish, S Sutherland. It issues from Gorm Loch Mor, 846 feet above sea-level, and 2½ miles N of Ben More Assynt, and thence runs 20½ miles south-eastward, falling into the Oikell in the vicinity of Rosehall, 8 miles WSW of Lairg, at less than 50 feet above the level of the sea. Its trout fishing is not very good, and salmon cannot ascend beyond the Glenmuick Falls.—Ord. Sur., shs. 108,102,1880-81.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a small river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Creich ScoP       Sutherland ScoCnty

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