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[Extracts from Old Statistical Account] ------- Examiners replies to each of the underlined portions

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into decay. The gables of both are still standing. That
of Kirkmichael contains the old bell, which is occa- ------- No Bell here at present
sionally tolled at funerals.
The united parish lies partly in the counties of Ross and
Cromarty within the district called an Oilean Dubh or
the Black Isle, on the south side of the Cromarty Frith ------- Written & Described
From the shores of the Frith, the land rises gradually for
nearly two miles, then sinks into a valley; on the south side of
which, it again rises rather abruptly until it terminates in
the summit of a hill called the Maole Buidhe, (the yellow ------- Written & Described
brow or ridge) The top of this hill, which is the precise boun-
dary of the parish to the south, is called Ard Meadhonach, ------- Written Cnoc nan [C---]
or high midland, as it through the very centre of the Black Isle
and may be about 800 feet above the level of the sea.
Mr James Fraser of Brae, was a native of this parish, and
the only son of Sir James Fraser of Brae, one of the heritors, and ------- Written & Described
third son of Hugh, seventh Lord Lovat. The house in which he
was born in 1639 is still standing, and is occupied at present ------- The only passage of
by a tenant on the estate of Newhall Several passages of ------- Scripture on the West
Scripture are carved in capital letters, on the West gable ------- Gable is "Fear God"
Antiquities. - On the moors, traces almost every where may
be observed of ancient encampments, and of monuments of
hard fought fields. A tradition is still current among the
people, of a sanguinary conflict fought on the moor which ------- Is not this known by the name of
stretches from the place of Resolis to Cullicudden on the north ------- Conflict of Blair Ne Pairk A.D. 1476
side of the road to Dingwall; and of another on the north shoulder ------- Is not this known by the name of
of Maole Buidhe at the southern extremity of the parish, and ------- Conflict of Drumchatt A.D. 1476
on the south side of the public road to Kessock Ferry: and ------- Not Known in this locality
certainly these moors, thickly covered as they are with Tumuli
bear testimony to the truth of the tradition.
It is reported that immediately before the Conflict the Clandonald ------- not in this
did burn and spoil a Chapel lying upon the River Connon not ------- parish
far from the place where they fought which made them Speid as they did.
About 20 years ago, a large barrow or Cairn was opened
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