Torboll Farm field trip 1990

Date Added: 30 September 2008 Year: 1987 Institution Name: dnhhl Cat No: ◀ | 2003_355_002 | ▶ Picture No: 5074

Extract from the Northern Times published on Friday 16th October 1987, with two monochrome photographs and article on the 5oth Anniversary parade in Dornoch commemorating the founding of the local branch of the Royal British Legion. Sutherland's Lord Lieutenant Colonel Alan Gilmour of Invernauld took the salute outside the Sheriff Courthouse.

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Would appreciate information on Torboll Farm and its water supply. I imagine perhaps the water supply in the field trip photos shared the same source as the water supply for the Torboll Mill (dam, sluice, lade) of the 1800's. The survey map indicates two well springs. My gg grandfather, John McGregor, was miller at Torboll in the early 1800's. (Was it a saw mill or a grist mill?) Would also love to know the age of the present Torboll farmhouse. Any information much appreciated.
Comment left on 11 September 2012 at 19:24 by Isabel Vaughan We do not hold much more information in the Museum than these photographs. The water supply is described as coming from above Torboll Falls. I believe the mill was a grist one and there has been a farmstead there since at least the middle of the 19th century. Perhaps someone else could provide you with more information? Administrator

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