Old Photograph Hotel Oykel Scotland

Old photograph of the hotel in Okyel by Lairg in Sutherland, Scotland. River Oykel is a major river in the northern Highlands that is famous for its salmon fishing. It rises on Ben More Assynt, a few miles from Ullapool on the west coast of Scotland, and drains into the North Sea via the Kyle of Sutherland. Traditionally it has marked the boundary between Ross to the south and Sutherland to the north. The Oykel was known to the Vikings as the Ekkjal. It served as the boundary between the ancient Pictish province of Cat, Sutherland and Caithness, and the province of Ross. In 1406, the Mackays defeated the Clan MacLeod of Lewis at the Battle of Tuiteam Tarbhach on the north bank near the mouth of the Tutim Burn.



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