Tour Scotland early Autumn travel video, with Scottish fiddle music, of a dreich, which is a Scots word for dull and cloudy, road trip drive to Loch Maovally, on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Sutherland in the Highlands. The county of Sutherland is one of the two most northernmost counties in mainland Britain, Caithness being the other. The name derives from the Norse word Sudrland, that is land to the south of the Norse earldom of Orkney and Caithness. Sudrland did not include the North and Western parishes of the modern day county of Sutherland. These were part of the traditional Clan Mackay territory, purchased in 1829 by the Marquess of Stafford, later created 1st Duke of Sutherland shortly before his death in 1833, and husband of the Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland in her own right and 19th holder of the Earldom of Sutherland. Many Sutherlands, who now live far and wide, are still proud of their surname, of their ancestral roots in the far north of Scotland. There are active Clan Sutherland Societies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America as well as in Scotland.When driving in Scotland, slow down and enjoy the trip
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