Jim - I'm guessing that you may mean "Strathnaver" - literally the valley of the River Naver. The river flows from Loch Naver north to the Pentland Firth at Internaver. But if this is the reference, it is not Caithness, but rather Sutherland, although very close to the Sutherland/Caithness border to the west of Thurso. Try going to www.multimap.com and enter Strathnaver. Sheila In a message dated 2/2/02 3:16:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, jimy@hyper.net.nz writes: > I am having difficulty locating a place name which I think is in Caithness > and I was hoping somebody on the list might be able to tell me where it is. > In a poem about the country a Scottish emigrant (my g grandfather's > brother) left behind he refers to "Strathnaven the land of MacKay". > I cannot find it in any of my atlases and the only thing I found on a > search engine was a reference to Strathnaven Museum in a tour of the > Orkneys and the Western Highlands. >