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Ordnance Survey - Caithness county, OS Name Books - Caithness county - Volume 3 - Parish of Dunnet, OS1/7/3

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[Page] 40
Co. [County] of Caithness -- Parish of Dunnet

[Note Killi Cairn] -- Nothing is known of this cairn, except that
it is a property boundry-mark, but I fully
believe it to be a burial Cairn. Altho; [Although] there
is little or no Gaelic now spoken in this district,
the name is evidently a corruption of
the Gaelic words - Cill a' Chairn Signifying
the Cairn grave, or Burial place of the Cairn
[Initialled] G.R

[Signed] Robert Kane
Sapr R.E. [Sapper Royal Engineers]

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Ordnance Survey - Caithness county, OS Name Books - Caithness county - Volume 3 - Parish of Dunnet, OS1/7/3

This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Dunnet.

Ordnance Survey - Caithness county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Caithness, which is in the north of Scotland.

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