Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Farrar

Farrar, river, Ross-shire and Inverness-shire; rises 9 miles E. of head of Loch Carron, flows E. through Glen Strathfarrar (expanding into Lochs Monar, Mhuilinn, and Bunacharan), and unites with the Glass to form the Beauly near Erchless Castle; is 27½ miles long, and has trout and grilse.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Inverness Shire ScoCnty       Ross and Cromarty ScoCnty
Place: Farrar

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