Dornoch
Dornoch
is a famed golfIng resort and Royal Burgh, with a good bathing
beach and sands, looking over the Dornoch Firth, into which
a narrow spit of land projects erminating at Dornoch Point.
Only the lofty tower is still standing
from the Bishop’s Castle, destroyed in 1570. The old
Cathedral dates from 1224, the choir having been
probably completed c. 1539.
After
severe damage in 1570, and later much neglect, considerable
restorations took place, first in 1835 to 1837, and latterly
in 1924. No fewer than 16 Earls of Sutherland are said to
he buried in the Cathedral, and there is a statue by Chantrey
of the first Duke. Dornoch
was the scene, in 1722, of the last judicial execution for
witchcraft to take place in Scotland, the Witch’s Stone
on the golf course recalling the event. North of Dornoch is
the late 18th century, mansion of Embo House.
