Jeantown or Lochcarron, a fishing village in Lochcarron parish, SW Ross-shire, on the northern shore of Loch Carron, 3½ miles SW of Strathearron station, and 16 SSE of Shieldaig. Consisting chiefly of a straggling row of poor dwellings, nearly a mile in length, but containing a few pretty good shops and cottages, it has a post office (Lochcarron), with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, a branch of the Caledonian Bank, and a good inn. It suffered great damage from a gale in November 1881. A rising-ground behind it is crowned with a Scandinavian dune; and a road westward from it to Applecross traverses a picturesque defile to the head of Loch Kishorn, and then, in a series of traverses, ascends a steep mountain corrie to the height of 1409 feet, amid stupendous precipices, similar to those of Glencoe.Ord. Sur., sh. 82, 1882.
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