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- Photo title: Sailing Boat going passed Helmsdale Old Harbour, Helmsdale, Sutherland, Scotland, U.K
- Author: Loinshoes
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- Sailing Boat going passed Helmsdale Old Harbour, Helmsdale, Sutherland, Scotland, U.K. Helmsdale is a village on the east coast of Sutherland, in the Highland council area of Scotland. The modern village was planned in 1814 to resettle communities that had been removed from the surrounding straths as part of the Highland Clearances. Helmsdale river (Gaelic Ilidh) is noted by Ptolemy as Ila, which remains an obscure name. The Gaelic name for the village, Bun Ilidh, means Ilie-foot. Norse settlers called the strath Hjalmundal, meaning Dale of the Helmet, from which the modern village name Helmsdale is derived. Helmsdale Castle, the remains of which were demolished in the 1970s in order to build the new A9 road bridge, was the location of the murder of the 11th Earl of Sutherland in 1567. The Earl and his Countess Marie Seton were poisoned by Isobel Sinclair. The previous bridge, which still stands, was designed by Thomas Telford[ and completed in 1811.[The last force-fire in Helmsdale was in about 1818.[citation needed] Two tributaries of the river were the scene of a gold rush in 1869. The history of Kildonan's gold started in 1818 when a single nugget of gold was found near the Suisgill and Kildonan burns. Late in 1868, a brief announcement in a local newspaper stated that gold had been discovered at Kildonan in the county of Sutherland. The credit for the discovery goes to Robert Nelson Gilchrist, a native of Kildonan, who had spent 17 years in the goldfields
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