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(''Siorrachd Inbhir Nis'' in
Gaelic ) was one of the former
Counties of
Scotland . The main town was
Inverness .
The county covered a large mainland area and various island areas off the west
Coast . The mainland area had coastline in both the east and the west and included the towns of
Kingussie ,
Fort William and
Mallaig . The island areas included
North Uist ,
South Uist , and
Harris in the
Outer Hebrides , and
Skye and the
Small Isles in the
Inner Hebrides .
Until about 1890 the mainland area was somewhat fragmented (but much less so than some other county areas in Scotland). From about 1890 onwards Inverness-shire had neighbouring counties as follow:
Ross And Cromarty to the north,
Nairnshire ,
Morayshire ,
Banffshire and
Aberdeenshire to the east, and
Perthshire and
Argyll to the south.
Today the county area is divided between the
Unitary Council Areas of
Highland ,
Na H-Eileanan Siar (the Western Isles) and
Moray .
In
1972 , the
Isle Of Rockall Act was passed, formally incorporating the tiny island of
Rockall into the UK as part of Inverness-shire.
There was an
Inverness-shire Constituency of the
Parliament Of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the
Parliament Of The United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. The constituency represented the county of Inverness-shire minus the
Parliamentary Burgh of
Inverness , which was represented as a component of
Inverness District Of Burghs .
In 1918 the county constituency was divided between the
Inverness Constituency and the
Western Isles Constituency , which were both then new constituencies. The Inverness constituency included the the burgh of Inverness, other components of the
District Of Burghs being divided between the
Moray And Nairn Constituency and the
Ross And Cromarty Constituency .
In 1983, eight years after the local government county of Inverness-shire had been divided between the
Highland and
Grampian regions and the
Western Isles council area, the Inverness constituency was replaced, largely by the
Inverness, Nairn And Lochaber Constituency .
