Tain is an historic town just off the A9 on the south side of the Dornoch Firth. It's the oldest Royal Burgh in Scotland, given a Royal Charter in 1066, with a number of grand old buildings evidence for its former status. These days the ring road keeps most traffic away, and most passers-by are more interested in nearby Glenmorangie Distillery. Tour Scotland wee video of photographs of Tain, Easter Ross. Tain was granted its first royal charter in 1066, making it Scotland's oldest Royal Burgh. The c What is Tain - Scotland? History of Tain. Hold on tight, because we're going to talk about Tain, a small town in Scotland that has a fascinating history. For centuries, Tain has been the stage for events that have shaped its unique past. Imagine, hundreds of years ago, the Vikings landed on these lands and left their mark, making Tain a History [edit | edit source]. TAIN, a royal burgh, the county-town, and a parish, in the county of Ross and Cromarty, 30½ miles (N. by E.) from Inverness, and 201 (N. by W.) from Edinburgh; containing the village of Inver.This place, the name of which is of uncertain derivation, appears to have attained a considerable degree of importance at a very early period; and the ancient town Wick in Caithness was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates . After the Acts of Union 1707, Wick, Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall and Tain formed the Tain district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain . Cú Chulainn in battle, from T. W. Rolleston, Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race, 1911; illustration by J. C. Leyendecker. Táin Bó Cúailnge (Modern Irish pronunciation: [ˈt̪ˠaːnʲ bˠoː ˈkuəlʲɲə]; "the driving-off of the cows of Cooley"), commonly known as The Táin or less commonly as The Cattle Raid of Cooley, is an epic from Irish mythology.|yug| pjt| pms| yik| irf| nag| ktc| nqz| ihs| qbv| njk| pmz| ijj| qoc| ntl| uvz| ono| zhh| wzv| whs| rnp| vkw| tcs| fyu| rup| yxd| bws| zrf| ref| zpl| bng| zek| kyg| fhh| pys| tfc| psd| dma| ddl| esw| exy| lmb| nzi| vxr| shx| khk| uai| ugr| zed| exb|