Kincardine, Sutherland

Kincardine (Scottish Gaelic: Cinn Chàrdainn) is a small hamlet in Sutherland, situated on the west end of the south shore of the Dornoch Firth.

[1] The village of Ardgay is less than 1 mile north west of Kincardine along the A836 coast road.

It lies within the civil parish of Kincardine and Community council of Ardgay and District.

[2] The first element represent Gaelic ceann substituting an original Pictish *pen, both meaning "end, head, top",[2] giving an aboriginal form of *Pencarden.

[7] Until the late 1790s the church was thatched with heather, but when the roof caught fire, the building was destroyed.