Rosskeen Parish Church (geograph 2089620)

Rosskeen is a parish in

Ross and Cromarty Ross and Cromarty ( gd, Ros agus Cromba), sometimes referred to as Ross-shire and Cromartyshire, is a variously defined area in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. There is a registration county and a lieutenancy area in current use, the latt ...

on the Cromarty Firth in northern Scotland, containing the settlements of Invergordon, Bridgend and

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. It lies on the A9 between

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and Thurso.

Notable Buildings

*Newmore Farmhouse (1845) by Andrew Maitland *Rosskeen Parish Church (1833) under threat of demolition since 1972 *Rosskeen Free Church (c.1870) Invergordon Castle was formerly the principal residence but was demolished in 1928.

Notable Features

The Rosskeen Stone, a prehistoric

standing stone A menhir (from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large human-made upright rock (geology), stone, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. T ...

. The highest hill in the parish is Cairn Coinneag, around 1000m high. The parish contains two rivers: Balnagowan (Rorie) and the Alness.

Notable Persons

*Rev David Carment parish minister 1822 to 1843 and founder of Rosskeen Free Church of which he was minister 1843 to 1856 * Very Rev John MacDonald (1860-1947) Moderator of the General Assembly of the

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in 1915.

References

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