Dornie, Wester Ross

Dornie, Wester Ross

ID: QZP40_CARD_0408 DESCRIPTION: Dornie is situated in Wester Ross on the east coast of Loch Long and where Loch Long and Loch Duich meet Loch Alsh. The old Gaelic name was Bun dà loch meaning "foot of two lochs". The modern name, Dornie, is from the Gaelic "an Doirnidh" meaning the pebbly place. The British Fisheries Society laid out the village in 1794 as a fishing and trading station, on land belonging to Colonel Francis Humberston Mackenzie of Seaforth. Until the 1870s, many of the population were involved with the herring industry, both curing and selling, but boatbuilding and net and shoemaking were also popular trades. The ferry which plied across Loch Long from Dornie to Ardelve, linking Lochalsh and Kintail was replaced in 1940 by the bridge in the picture. It had a span in the middle which could be opened to allow shipping through. This bridge was dismantled in the 1990s when a new bridge was built. The building on the far side of Loch Long is the Loch Duich Hotel, formerly the Aird Ferry Hotel. PLACENAME: Dornie OLD COUNTY/PARISH: ROSS PERIOD: 1970s SOURCE: Highland Libraries COLLECTION: Highland Libraries' Postcard Collection Asset ID: 32329 KEYWORDS: