KINLOCH-LUICHART, a quoad sacra parish (large),
in the county of Ross-and-Cromarty; consisting of
parts of the parishes of Contin, Fodderty, and Urray;
and containing, in 1841, 681 inhabitants. This district,
which was disjoined for ecclesiastical purposes from the
above-mentioned parishes, is wholly rural. Its greatest
length is twenty-two, and greatest breadth seventeen
miles. The population is all of the poor and working
classes, and is thinly dispersed over this large extent,
the land being chiefly let out as sheep-walks to tenants
who do not themselves reside in the district. Ecclesiastically
Kinloch-Luichart is in the presbytery of Dingwall,
synod of Ross, and the patronage is vested in the
Crown: the stipend of the minister is £120, paid from
the exchequer; and he has a manse, and a glebe of the
annual value of £3. The church was built in 1825-6,
under the act for erecting additional churches in the
Highlands; it is situated exactly nineteen miles west
from Dingwall, and contains 310 sittings. There is a
school in connexion with the Free Church, in which
English and Gaelic reading, and writing and arithmetic,
are taught.