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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MOUNTHALIE Mounthalie Mr Murray, Castlehill
Mr D. Weir Greenland
Mr A Grant, Bower
007 This name applies to what was once a farm-Steading, now only a dwelling house, Property of J. Traill, Esq, of Ratter.
FREE CHURCH SCHOOL [Mounthalie] School Mr Murray, Castlehill
Mr D. Weir Greenland
Mr A Grant, Bower
007 A Small School with dwelling house and Small garden attached. Supported by the Free Church and the Scholars fees. Average attendance about fifty Pupils.
MOUNT HALIE Mount Halie Mr Murray, Castlehill
Mr D. Weir Greenland
Mr A Grant, Bower
007 A medium, uncultivated hill the remains of a pictish house is on its summit, that of an old Roman Catholic Chapel exist ay this side of a Loch near to it's base, from this circumstance it appears that the hill was names ''Mount Halie'', or the Holy Hill.

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County of Caithness -- Parish of Dunnet

[Note Mount Halie] -- This account is of very
doubtful authority.
The remains can be
traced of either Pictish
house or Chapel -- [Signed] F.W. Nixon LtR.E. [Lieutenant Royal Engineers]

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