Portmahomack, a fishing village in Tarbat parish, NE Ross and Cromarty, on the SE side of the entrance to Dornoch Firth, 3 miles SSW of Tarbat Ness, and 9¾ ENE of Tain. It has a post office, with money order, Savings' bank, and telegraph departments, 25 fishing boats, and a pier 420 feet long, erected at a cost of £3168. Pop. (1861) 489, (1871) 458, (1881) 301.Ord. Sur., sh. 94, 1878.
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