Rogart

Rogart
Scottish Gaelic: *Sgìre Raoird*
Rogart Scottish Gaelic: Sgìre Raoird;
	St Callan's Church in Rogart
	Rogart Location within the Sutherland area
OS grid reference	NC745034
Council area	Highland;
Lieutenancy area	Sutherland;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Rogart
Postcode district	IV28
Dialling code	01408
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross;
Scottish Parliament	Caithness, Sutherland and Ross;
	List of places UK Scotland 58°00′10″N 4°07′27″W / 58.00264°N 4.12408°W

Rogart (/ˈroʊɡɑːrt/ ROH-gart, Scottish Gaelic: Sgìre Raoird or Raoghard, meaning "great enclosed field")^[1] is a parish in Sutherland, Highland, Scotland. The parish was the home of Major Andrew MacDonald, who fought in the French and Indian War.^[2]

It was originally a scattered crofting parish centred on the parish church of St Callan's, until the opening of the Rogart railway station at Pittentrail 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) to the southeast. The locus of the parish shifted when a new 'industrial' village grew around Pittentrail following the arrival of the railway in 1886.^[3]

Pollen analysis suggests the planting of oak at Reidchalmai, Rogart, early in the first millennium AD, at a location where the species had not grown naturally for two thousand years. The mature trees appear to have been clear-felled in a single event towards the end of the sixth century.^[4]^[5]

The village of Golspie is 9 miles (14 km) east of Rogart whilst Lairg is 10 miles west.

References

↑ Gaelic and Norse in the Landscape: Placenames in Caithness and Sutherland. Scottish National Heritage.
↑ Annals, North British Society
↑ "Rogart". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
↑ Oram, Richard D. (2025), A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400 - 1400, John Donald, Edinburgh, pp. 80 & 81, ISBN 9780859767194
↑ Tipping, R., Davies, A.L. & McCulloch, "Introduced Oak Woodlands in Northern Scotland: pollen analytical evidence for early historic plantations", in Woolf, Alex (ed.) (2006), Landscape and Environment in Dark Age Scotland, The Committee for Dark Age Studies, University of St. Andrews, pp. 29 - 47, ISBN 9780951257364

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[1] Gaelic and Norse in the Landscape: Placenames in Caithness and Sutherland. Scottish National Heritage.

[2] Annals, North British Society

[3] "Rogart". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 15 December 2014.

[4] Oram, Richard D. (2025), A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400 - 1400, John Donald, Edinburgh, pp. 80 & 81, ISBN 9780859767194

[5] Tipping, R., Davies, A.L. & McCulloch, "Introduced Oak Woodlands in Northern Scotland: pollen analytical evidence for early historic plantations", in Woolf, Alex (ed.) (2006), Landscape and Environment in Dark Age Scotland, The Committee for Dark Age Studies, University of St. Andrews, pp. 29 - 47, ISBN 9780951257364

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