Ca na Catanach | |
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Length | 22 miles (35 km) |
Location | Scotland |
Trailheads | Dorrery Lodge Achentoul |
Use | Hiking |
Ca na Catanach (translation: "Sutherland Men's Path") [1] is a road and footpath between Sutherland and Caithness through the moorland in the northeastern Scottish Highlands. [2] [3] Noted as a post-medieval drovers' road in the Highland Historic Environment Record, [1] it is also a 22-mile (35 km) Heritage Path. [4] Its start point is at Dorrery Lodge and it ends just north of Achentoul. The nine-mile (14 km) section from Thurso to Kinbrace is a rough walking path. [5] A 19th-century estate road overlies Ca na Catanach. [6] In the 1870s Ordnance Survey recorded that point the drove road crosses the historic county border is atop of an eminence known as Cnoc nan Goile, and the name Ca-na-Catanach only applies to the section between Dorrery and Cnoc nan Goile. [2]