Features ⋆ Ross and Cromarty Heritage

Kiltearn Features

Attribution: Photo copyright S. Fraser

Entrance to Evanton

Entrance to Evanton from the South (war memorial on left and Fyrish in background)

Attribution: unknown

Foulis Castle

Foulis Castle, ancestral home of the Clan Munro.

Attribution: unknown

Fyrish

Attribution: RCHS

Balconie Castle

Between the late 15th and 17th century this castle was held by the Clan Munro family.

By World War 2 it was owned as a summer residence by George Bankes. Requisitioned by the Army it was used as a billet for personnel at the nearby Royal Naval Air Station.

Post-war it was purchased by an Alness timber merchant and lay empty. Dry rot was found and the castle was considered to be so unsafe that demolition was the only solution. This took place in the 1960s and the stone was used in the new Smelter at Invergordon.

There is little remaining, apart from a field, an icehouse and the walled garden.

Attribution: unknown

Kiltearn Beach

Kiltearn beach on the Cromarty Firth, at high tide.

Attribution: unknown

Black Rock Caravan site

Black Rock caravan park. photo taken some years ago.)

Attribution: (RCHS)

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Kiltearn » Kiltearn Folk

The Dods family who were tragically lost on The Natal in December 1915

John Henry Dods, Dalgheal, Evanton, his wife Annie Farrer, and their children Dorothy Elizabeth, Marcus Palliser and John Frederick, all of whom perished when HMS Natal exploded in the Cromarty Firth on 30 December 1915. The Dods family were guests at a party on board the Natal hosted by the commanding officer, Captain Eric Black and his wife and children. Other guests included three nurses from the hospital ship Drina, which was moored nearby.

Mrs Isabella Maclean beside the first milk separator to be introduced to Ross-shire

This is a photograph of the late Mrs Isabella Maclean, of "Castle Needle", Balconie Street, Evanton (date unknown, but possibly late 1920s), beside the first milk separator to be introduced to Ross-shire, and located at Balconie Farm. The building (a dairy) behind Mrs Maclean has been restored in recent years