Urray

Coordinates: 57°32′24″N 4°29′42″W / 57.54011°N 4.49495°W

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Urray Scottish Gaelic: Urrath
Urray Location within the Ross and Cromarty area
OS grid reference	NH507527
Council area	Highland
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Marybank
Postcode district	IV6 7

Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish

List of places UK Scotland 57°32′24″N 4°29′42″W / 57.54011°N 4.49495°W / 57.54011; -4.49495

Urray (Scottish Gaelic: Urrath) is a scattered village and coastal parish,^[1] consisting of Easter, Old and Wester Urray and is located in the county of Ross in the Scottish council area of the Highland.^[2] Urray is also a parish in the district of Wester Ross and Cromarty. It comprises the parishes of Carnoch and Kinlochlychart, with the ancient parish of Kilchrist.^[3]

Urray is located 2 miles northwest of Muir of Ord and 1.5 miles east of Marybank. The closest town is Dingwall to the north-east.

The ruined Fairburn Tower was a castle of the Clan Mackenzie.^[4]

During the war, the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit had a sawmill and camp named Fairburn nearby, at Aultgowrie. A NOFU member who died during his time in Scotland is buried at Urray Cemetery.

Churches

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A church dedicated to St Constantine existed since medieval times and was under the control of Fortrose Cathedral.^[5]

As with many Highland parishes Urray gravitated to the Free Church of Scotland after the Disruption of 1843.

These links provided three Moderators of the General Assembly for the Free Church (see below).

The Church of Scotland parish churchyard remains the main place of burial for the parish.

The Free Church serves the wider parish of Muir of Ord.^[6]

Notable people

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Very Rev Patrick Grant Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1778
Rev Archibald Donald Cameron, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland 1928/29 was born and raised in Urray^{[citation needed]}
Rev Roderick Finlayson, minister of Urray, was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland 1945/6^[7]
Very Rev John Macleod Moderator of the Free Church in 1918
Duncan Mackenzie, archaeologist, from nearby Aultgowrie

References

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^ "Urray". The Gazetteer for Scotland. University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
^ Microsoft; Nokia. "Urray" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
^ "Urray". GENUKI. The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland. 1968. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
^ David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross, Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1889), pp. 462-5
^ Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae; by Hew scott
^ "Urray and Strathconon Free Church of Scotland". muirofordfreechurch.co.uk.
^ Herald (Scottish newspaper) 21 Feb 1989

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