Search the Coigach Heritage Archives

Meta Data

Items in the archive are tagged with the following keyword categories:

  • Surname (eg “Mackenzie)

  • Township (eg “Polbain”)

  • Year of item (eg “1908” or “1982-2003”)

  • Building name (eg “hotel”)

  • Photographer name (e.g. “Fi Taylor”)

  • Location of photo (e.g. “Polglass”)

  • Geological or topographical feature (e.g. “mountain”, “beach”)

  • Geological or topographical name (e.g. “Stac Pollaidh”)

  • Project name (e.g. “Who We Are”)

  • Item type (e.g. “photo” or “fabric” or “tool”)

About The Archive

This section of the website is under development.

There are hundreds of documents held in the Coigach Heritage archives still to be catalogued. If you would like to volunteer time in assisting us with scanning, uploading, adding meta data and otherwise processing Coigach archival materials, please get in touch. Full training will be provided.

If you have interesting artefacts pertaining to Coigach that you would be willing to share, either in digital or physical form, including (but not limited to) photographs, wills, legers, deeds, crofting materials, family trees and associated geneology etc please get in touch. We are also interested in unique physical artefacts from the area such as tools, fabrics, domestic, architectural, cultural etc. In short, if you have something related to the history and present of Coigach, its people, its culture and way of life, please contact us.