Tongue

Tongue lies on the eastern side of the Kyle of Tongue, a long sea inlet on the north coast of Sutherland. Across the water, Castle Varrich stands on a hill above the kyle and was a stronghold of the chiefs of Clan Mackay. Tongue House later became their seat, looking over the inlet towards the mountains of Ben Loyal and Ben Hope. In 1746 a ship carrying assistance for the Jacobites ran aground in Tongue Bay shortly before the battle of Culloden.