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#Caithness #Gàidhlig Gu leòr a Ghàilig tù Ghollaidh! Here is an entry for relations of @Gaeliconsultant in the 1881 census, showing universal habitual Gaelic-speaking among native Caithness folk in the parish of Latheron, be they young or old. West Caithnessians were Gaels!

#Gàidhlig #Caithness Tha sinn a’ cur nam focail as clàr! Back to the job of compiling the Latheron word-list from a mixture of diverse sources: Dwelly, GLS, Gaelic loans into Scots, research by pal Alasdair MacMhaoirn, “Elegies” by Roster native Seóras MacAoidh & placenames!

#Gàidhlig #Caithness Bha na Gàidheil tù Latharn! “Dr J.F. Sutherland… gave it as his opinion that the Celts were the more important” Not that we agree that there is a “more important” element to Caithness’ ethnic makeup, but it’s nice to see the Celtic element emphasised.

#Gàidhlig Sgìr Latharn #Caithness Gaelic CELTIC MAGAZINE, VOL III (1878) "A number of petitions in favour of teaching Gaelic in the schools have been presented from various parts of the Highlands by School Boards, among the rest from... Latheron."

#Gàidhlig #Caithness “There is no man so contemptible in my estimation as a man born in the Highlands and reared under a thatched roof… going in and out of the same door as the pigs and cows… who is too proud to learn and speak Gaelic” greyhenswell.blogspot.com/2016/10/gaelic…

#Gàidhlig #Caithness #CaithnessGaelic #LatheronGaelic EATHAN NAOGHAS MUILLEARACH Croitear ’s post á Dùn Bheitheadh. The late John Angus Miller of Dunbeath, pictured here in his croft in April 2010. Perhaps the last man to have a few-phrase smattering of Caithness Gaelic.