Eriboll is a village in Sutherland

Sutherland

Sutherland is a registration county, lieutenancy area and historic administrative county of Scotland. It is now within the Highland local government area. In Gaelic the area is referred to according to its traditional areas: Dùthaich 'IcAoidh , Asainte , and Cataibh...

, Scotland on the south eastern shore of the sea loch, Loch Eriboll

Loch Eriboll

Loch Eriboll is a long sea loch on the north coast of Scotland, which has been used for centuries as a deep water anchorage as it is safe from the often stormy seas of Cape Wrath and the Pentland Firth...

. It lies in the northern part of the former county of Sutherland

Sutherland

Sutherland is a registration county, lieutenancy area and historic administrative county of Scotland. It is now within the Highland local government area. In Gaelic the area is referred to according to its traditional areas: Dùthaich 'IcAoidh , Asainte , and Cataibh...

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The main A838

A838 road

The A838 road is in Sutherland, in the Highland area of Scotland. It runs generally northwest from the A836 in the Lairg area to Laxford Bridge on the west coast of Scotland, then generally northeast to Durness on the north coast, and then generally east/southeast to Tongue, where it rejoins the A836...

 coast road connects the villages of Tongue

Tongue, Highland

Tongue is a coastal village in northwest Highland, Scotland, in the western part of the former county of Sutherland. It lies on the east shore above the base of the Kyle of Tongue and north of the mountains Ben Hope and Ben Loyal...

, Achuvoldrach

Achuvoldrach

Achuvoldrach is a small village on the west shore of the Kyle of Tongue in Sutherland, in the Highland region of Scotland.Achuvoldrach is linked to the village of Tongue by a causeway across the Kyle of Tongue....

, Hope and Eriboll to the east and Polla

Polla

Polla is a town and comune of the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-west Italy. As of 2010 its population was of 5,305.-Geography:...

, Portnancon

Portnancon

Portnancon is a small remote crofting township, and former, now disused fishing station, on the west shore of the sea loch, Loch Eriboll in Sutherland, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. The village of Durness lies 8 miles along the A838 road to the west...

, Sangobeg

Sangobeg

Sangobeg is a remote coastal crofting township which overlooks Sangobeg Sands in Sutherland, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.A legacy of the clearances, this small township sits on the edge of Durness around a mile away. Several ruins bound the edges of the...

, Durness

Durness

Durness is a huge but remote parish in the northwestern Highlands of Scotland, encompassing all the land between the Moine to the East and the Gualin to the West...

, Sarsgrum and on to Laxford Bridge to the west.

Its Norse

North Germanic languages

The North Germanic languages or Scandinavian languages, the languages of Scandinavians, make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages...

name (meaning Home on a gravel beach) reveals the dominant culture of 1000 years ago.