Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Castle Girnigoe and Castle Sinclair

Castle Girnigoe and Castle Sinclair, neighbouring ruins, on the sea-coast, 3¼ miles NE. of Wick, E. Caithness-shire; formerly the chief strongholds of the Sinclairs, Earls of Caithness.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "neighbouring ruins"   (ADL Feature Type: "historical sites")
Administrative units: Caithness ScoCnty
Place: Sinclair

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