Kealmia ?

[DreadGod]

I am trying to locate a place named "Kealmia". It is apparantly in the parish of Farr, county of Sutherland. But exactly where Kealmia is I cannot find, on any map.

Does anyone know where this place is ?

[hiorta]

Kealmia is not a gaidhlig word - there is no letter 'k' - but it looks as in the heading: 'Caol' - anglicised to kyle - (a narrow strip of sea). 'Meal' - usually referring to hill tops - (bald or featureless, ie without vegetation or rocky heaps).
So we have Caol Meal (a narrow sea strip having a bald-topped hill) pronounced Kyle meowll, nearby. But there is a word missing as the first two are descriptive adjectives.

The 'caol' places it on the Northern coast around Tongue and Durness. The sea will be the Pentland Firth. The land there could be fairly described as featureless, compared with other parts of the Highlands.

There is a place marked on the gaidhlig map I have, called Mealbhaich (of the featureless bays - at a guess) and near to it is 'Am Bláran Odhar' - (the drab battlegrounds).
This whole area was 'cleared' for sheep by the ultra-notorious Sutherlands, with the already dispossesed Highlanders deliberately driven into the sea and of course, there were many wee set-tos with the Vikings before that.

I cannot vouch for the accuracy of this, but I hope it is helpful. Google Earth might be useful. Look between Cape Wrath and Thurso.

[DreadGod]

That's very interesting, thank you for your reply.

However the record I have is for this place being in the parish of Farr. So I think we can rule out the parishes of Tongue and Durness.