[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
The Gough Map of Great Britain
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Full record: Caithness
| County | Caithness |
|---|---|
| Transcript | Catnesse |
| Icon description |
two buildings, spired church |
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| Description | |
| Appearances |
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| Etymology | Cats, Celtic tribal name + ON ness, 'headland' |
| Translation | |
| Earlier editors | There is no town named Caithness today. Yet it appeared on Mercator's British Islands 1564, on Speed's map of 1610, and on Camden's Britannia for 1637, as north or north-east of Wick. Speed narrows the area for Catnesse t. between Girnego Castle and Wick. In all probability it refers t. Castle Sinclair, chief stronghold of the earls of Caithness (Parsons). |
| Early Maps | Cathanesia (Angliae Figura); Catnesse (Totius Britanniae; two buildings, spired church) |
| Overwritten | no |
| Attested spelling |
