NAIRNSHIRE

NAIRNSHIRE, a small county in Scotland. It is situated between $57^\{\backslash circ\}\; 22\text{'}$, and $57^\{\backslash circ\}\; 40\text{'}$ north latitude, and $3^\{\backslash circ\}\; 35\text{'}$, and $4^\{\backslash circ\}\; 7\text{'}$ west longitude, having the Moray Frith on the north, Morayshire on the east and south, and the county of Inverness on the west. Its extent, from north to south, is from 12 to 20 miles, and from east to west from 10 to 13; and its contents are 198 square miles, or 126,720 English acres, of which only about a fourth part is in cultivation; the rest consisting chiefly of wastes, with about 10,000 acres of wood, natural and planted, about three square miles of lakes, and a small proportion of moss. It has only four entire parishes, Ardclauch, Aultdearn, Calder, and Nairn, and portions of other five, which belong to the counties of Moray, Ross, and Inverness. Two detached districts, Ferintosh and Dunmaglass, belong to Nairnshire, the former lying near Dingwall, in Ross-shire, and the latter at the head of Strathnairn, in Inverness-shire.