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This page presents a listing, in shelfmark order, of the main Sutherland Estate mapping held by the National Library of Scotland. As some items are very fragile, held in volumes, or as large rolled maps, only around two-thirds of the maps have so far been scanned (October 2020).
- John Kirk
John Kirk's attractive and detailed volumes of manuscript...
- John Kirk
Estate Maps of Sutherland, 1730s-1950s. The most detailed maps of rural areas before Ordnance Survey mapping, illustrating all aspects of estate management. See also county maps, for less detailed maps of rural areas. Browse Estate Maps of Scotland using a graphic index.
Estate maps are primarily associated with the major era of agricultural improvement from around 1760 to 1840, and are often the most detailed maps of rural areas before Ordnance Survey mapping. Browse Estate Maps of Scotland using a graphic index. View Named Estate Map Collections. At present, we have coverage of these counties:
The Sutherland estate in the north of Scotland was one of the most famous, or infamous, of all Highland estates. Its vast size (at 1.1 million acres it covered nearly the whole county of Sutherland) and the wealth and policies of the family that owned it, the dukes of Sutherland, has singled it out for much comment.
Dunrobin Castle (mostly 1835–1845 — present) is a stately home in Sutherland, in the Highland area of Scotland, as well as the family seat of the Earl of Sutherland, Chief of the Clan Sutherland. It is located one mile (1.5 kilometres) north of Golspie and approximately five miles (eight kilometres) south of Brora, overlooking the Dornoch ...
Clan Sutherland also known as House of Sutherland is a Highland Scottish clan whose traditional territory is the shire of Sutherland in the far north of Scotland. The chief of the clan was also the powerful Earl of Sutherland; however, in the early 16th century, this title passed through marriage to a younger son of the chief of Clan Gordon. [7]
Sutherland. A territorial name from the county of Sutherland in the north-east of Scotland. Sutherland was the ‘Sudrland’, or ‘Southland’, of the Norsemen who had by the tenth century conquered all of the islands of Scotland and much of the mainland as far south as Inverness.
