Aerial view of Meikle Ferry peninsula, Evelix, S of Skibo , East Sutherland, looking W.

Description Aerial view of Meikle Ferry peninsula, Evelix, S of Skibo , East Sutherland, looking W.

Date 13/3/2001

Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 1944945

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content The Meikle Ferry was the northern end of the foot passenger ferry crossing across the Dornoch Firth. The southern end (off the L side of the photo) is at the tip of the Ness of Portnaculter. In the R foreground there is a Canmore reference to an embankment, although no further detail is given. Just R of centre, the large single storey rendered building, is now a golf club-house. Across from this, on the L side of the peninsula, is the old Ferrytown Inn. At the end of the peninsula, just above centre, is an early C19 pier and associated buildings for the former ferry. It gained a sad notoriety after the Meikle Ferry disaster of 1810 when 90 persons lost their lives when an overloaded ferry boat overturned. At the very top of the image is the Ardmore coastline, N of Edderton in Ross-shire. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2019/15

External Reference S1196

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1944945

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap