Dornoch

Dornoch, the county town of Sutherland, 7 miles SSE. of the Mound station, and 40 NNE. of Inverness, stands near the entrance to Dornoch Firth, which, running 22 miles inland, separates Sutherland from Ross-shire. It has splendid golf-links, a tower of the old bishop's palace, handsome county buildings, and the former cathedral of the see of Caithness (1245), which, burned in 1570, was rebuilt for the parish church in 1837, and contains a statue by Chantrey of the first Duke of Sutherland. The last witch burned in Scotland suffered at Dornoch in 1727. It was made a royal burgh in 1628, and with Wick and four other towns returns one member to parliament. Pop. (1861) 647; (1881) 497; (1891) 514.