ROSS-SHIRE

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'Ross-shire', or the 'County of Ross', (''Siorrachd Rois'' in Scottish Gaelic) is a former county of Scotland. The county bordered on Sutherland, Cromartyshire (of which it contained many enclaves), Inverness-shire and an exclave of Nairnshire. It included most of Ross as well as Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Dingwall was the traditional county town.
Ross-shire and Cromartyshire were combined in the single local government county of Ross and Cromarty under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889. In 1975, Ross and Cromarty was itself replaced by the Highland region and the Western Isles, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The region became a unitary council area in 1996, under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.
The ''Ross-shire Journal''^[1] covers, approximately, the area of the former county.

Contents

Constituency

Clans

Footnotes

See also

Constituency

There was a Ross-shire constituency of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. In 1832 it was merged with the Cromartyshire constituency to form the Ross and Cromarty constituency.

Clans

The main three ancient Scottish clans in mainland Ross-shire were the Clan Ross whose chiefs once held the title Earl of Ross and also the Clan Munro and Clan MacKenzie.

Footnotes

1. Ross-shire Journal website

See also

★ Ross

★ Ross and Cromarty

★ Earl of Ross

★ Mormaer of Ross

★ Bishop of Ross

★ James McKenzie