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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CNOC A' BHAID-DARAICH Cnoc a' Bhaid-daraich Mr Angus McGregor, Invercarron Hill 018 A small Knoll a short distance northwest of Loch a' Choire. Meaning, "Knoll of the OaK Clump"
LAMENTATION HILL Lamentation Hill Site of Battle fought A.D. 1650
Lamentation Hill Site of Battle fought A.D. 1650
Lamentation Hill Site of Battle fought A.D. 1650
Mr Angus McGregor, Invercarron Hill
Mr William McKay, Carpenter, Balinahinsh
Mr Robert McDonald, Warranaburn
018 A prominent hill on the south side of the Kyle of Sutherland about half a mile west of Culrain Lodge and four miles from Bonar Bridge. In the Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland this place is called the "Rock of Lamentation", and is the place where the last battle of the Marquis of Montrose was fought on 27th April 1650. "when he fled into Assynt, where he was captured". In the district it is always Known now as Lamentation Hill. About four years ago it was all planted with fir.
Site of BATTLE fought A.D. 1650 [Lamentation Hill] 018 A prominent hill on the south side of the Kyle of Sutherland about half a mile west of Culrain Lodge and four miles from Bonar Bridge. In the Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland this place is called the "Rock of Lamentation", and is the place where the last battle of the Marquis of Montrose was fought on 27th April 1650. "when he fled into Assynt, where he was captured". In the district it is always Known now as Lamentation Hill. About four years ago it was all planted with fir.
CNOC A' CHÀIT Cnoc a' Chàit Mr Angus McGregor 018 A small Knoll a short distance north of Loch a' Choire. Meaning, "Hill of the Cat".

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Sheet 18. -- Parish of Kincardine, -- Ross-shire.

Lamentation Hill (Site of Battle fought A.D. 1650) [notes]
Ought not a note indicating the site
of this Battle be written on the plan?

Yes

27th of April?
1650

In Brown's History of the Highlands
the place where the battle was fought
was called Carbisdale. Is there a Carbisdale near the place?


[signed] John McKeith
Sapper R.E. [Royal Engineers]

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