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or the '''County of Inverness''' (''Siorrachd Inbhir Nis'' in
Gaelic ) is one of the
Registration Counties of
Scotland . Until 1975 it was a
Local Government County .
The registration county is made up of the historic districts of ).
The former county covered a large mainland area and various island areas off the west to the north,
Nairnshire ,
Moray ,
Banffshire and
Aberdeenshire to the east, and
Perthshire and
Argyll to the south. The
County Town was
Inverness .
Today the former 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 Scotland as part of the
Isle Of Harris , Inverness-shire (Harris is not part of the modern registration county).
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 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 .
