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Golspie, Golspie Bridge
Obelisk (Post Medieval), Road Bridge (19th Century)
Site Name Golspie, Golspie Bridge
Classification Obelisk (Post Medieval), Road Bridge (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Golspie Burn
Canmore ID 6563
Site Number NC80SW 12
NGR NC 84041 00542
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6563
- Council Highland
- Parish Golspie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC80SW 12 84041 00542
(NC 8404 0054) The bridge over the burn at Golspie was the rallying place of the Sutherland clan, and on a parapet is an obelisk bearing the Gaelic inscription: "Morfhear Chatt/ do/ Cheann-na-Droichait big Gairn / Chlann Chattich / Nam Buadh". This means "The Chief of the Sutherland Clan to the head of the little bridge calls the Sutherland men of the victories."
D MacDonald, A Polson and J Brown 1931; Sutherland Country Guide nd.
The obelisk on the bridge (now disused) is as described above.
Visited by OS (N K B) 28 January 1976.
The bridge was built about 1810. The obelisk was probably taken from an earlier "little bridge".
HBD (1967).
