Culduie

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Culduie
Gaelic: Cùil Duibh
Ross-shire
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Culduie
Location
Grid reference: NG715401
Location: 57°23’40"N, 5°48’13"W
Data
Postcode: IV54 8
Local Government
Council: Highland

Culduie is a little hamlet on the southwest corner on Applecross peninsula on the west coast of Ross-shire, looking out over the Minch and to the Isle of Raasay.

Culduie is found to the south of Applecross Village (Shore Street), in Strathcarron. It looks over the bay of Pola-creadh towards the hamlet of Ard-dubh.

Fishing was one of the main sources of income for Applecross residents and the bay still has a few active fishing boats mainly for prawn fishing these days.

In literature

The hamlet is the place where the events in His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet take place;[1] a fictional story of the 17-year-old Roddy Macrae, who commits a triple homicide. It is set in Culduie in around 1869.

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