Country diary: Dingwall mart (Guardian)

The annual meeting of the Highland Livestock Heritage Society was held at this
mart last Thursday and as I waited for it to start I pondered on what we have
achieved in the past few years. One success has been the drovers' project,
which was aimed at commemorating the work and life of the cattle drovers. In
mainly the 18th and 19th centuries these hardy men drove cattle on foot from
the remotest parts of the Highlands and Islands to the main trysts, as the
markets are called ? they congregated in Muir of Ord just north of Inverness.
Then they went south to the important Scottish trysts in Crieff and Falkirk
and even as far as London. This could mean, between Lochmaddy in the Hebrides
and London, 600 miles "on the hoof".

Dingwall is a fitting place for the society as this mart was established in
1884 and was one of the gathering places for cattle from the northern
Highlands before they went to Muir of Ord. A few years ago the society set up
the project with three main aims: to assemble an archive on information about
the droving; to create a ...

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