Caithness

[keyth-nes, keyth-nes]

noun

1. a historic county in NE Scotland.

Caithness

/ keɪθˈnɛs, ˈkeɪθnɛs /

noun

1. (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland, now part of Highland

Example Sentences

The Highland Council recently published a strongly-worded critique of one of the most contentious power lines, stretching 107 miles from the north of Caithness through eastern Sutherland and Easter Ross to the central Highland village of Beauly.

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Dounreay, on the north Caithness coast, was established 70 years ago as an experimental nuclear power site.

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In 2020 Gail Ross, the SNP's MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, announced that she would not seek re-election as she wanted to watch her son grow up.

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Booth, 65, is separately appealing a civil court ruling earlier this year which stated that he trafficked and exploited women and violently whipped them both at Lochdhu Lodge in Caithness, and overseas.

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Another woman who worked for Booth at Lochdhu Lodge in Caithness told BBC Scotland News she had to sign a contract allowing him to "punish" her.

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