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RISPOND
see also Archeology
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Rispon
,translated means bay with small sloping hill.
An
eighteenth century fishing station and clearance village described
in 1807 by John Henderson “a well sheltered creek on the west
side of Loch Eriboll where Mr. Anderson, the tacksman has made a
good dwelling house, a salmon boiling house a shed for casks and
has made a pier to accommodate vessels of sixty or seventy tons on
the site of rocks which he has blown up. Around him he has placed
fourteen families of fishermen who have cultivated with the
cascrom all the hollows between the rugged rocks in the
vicinity”
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