Sangobeg is a remote coastal crofting

Crofting

Crofting is a form of land tenure and small-scale food production unique to the Scottish Highlands, the Islands of Scotland, and formerly on the Isle of Man....

 township

Township

The word township is used to refer to different kinds of settlements in different countries. Township is generally associated with an urban area. However there are many exceptions to this rule. In Australia, the United States, and Canada, they may be settlements too small to be considered urban...

 which overlooks Sangobeg Sands 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...

, Scottish Highlands

Scottish Highlands

The Highlands is an historic region of Scotland. The area is sometimes referred to as the "Scottish Highlands". It was culturally distinguishable from the Lowlands from the later Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands...

 and is in the Scottish

Scotland

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 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 crofts and are a reminder of how many families once lived in the area. The land is of extremely poor condition and supports a few sheep at best. Aerial photography clearly shows that people were better able to grow potatoes on Eilean Hoan in order to supplant their diets. Removed from sheltered glens inland with better grazing for cattle and land for crops, the inhabitants of sangobeg 150 years ago would have faced multiple challenges.There is no shelter for mooring of boats, and the cutting of peats would have required a 5 to 7 mile walk out towards Carbreck. However the nearest harbour at Rispond did have a shop, and there were blacksmiths in Sangomore as well as other merchants such as grocers and bakers.
The village of 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...

 is located 1 miles northwest along the 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...

road.