Gruids
| Gruids Gaelic: Na Grùidean | |
| Sutherland | |
|---|---|
 Gruids | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NC572041 |
| Location: | 58°0’11"N, 4°25’1"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Lairg |
| Postcode: | IV27 4 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Highland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross |
Gruids is a small, remote hamlet, located to the north of Gruids Wood, directly north of Shin Wood in the south of Sutherland.
The village of Lairg which lies at the base on Loch Shin, is less than two miles north-east along the A839 road.
Gruids Wood to the south shows traces of prehistoric and post-mediæval settlements.[1] A clan battle known as the Conflict of Gruids was fought at some date between 1519 and 1522 on ground to the north, in which battle Alexander, Master of Sutherland, defeated John MacKay of Strathnaver.[2]
The future geologist and writer Hugh Miller stayed with an aunt and uncle at Gruids during childhood holidays and observed the geological features.[3]
References
- ↑ CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Gruids Wood: Head Dyke (Post Mediæval), Township
- ↑ CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Conflict Of Gruids - battlesite
- ↑ Francis Groome, ed (1885). Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Thomas C. Jack. http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurehistory2292.html.