Sallachy
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 Loch Long at Sallachy | |
  Sallachy Location within the Ross and Cromarty area | |
| OS grid reference | NG911306 |
| Council area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Dornie |
| Postcode district | IV40 8 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
Sallachy (Scottish Gaelic : Salachaidh) [1] is a hamlet on the north shore of Loch Long in the district of Skye and Lochalsh in the Scottish Highlands and is in the council area of Highland.
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Sorley MacLean was a Scottish Gaelic poet, described by the Scottish Poetry Library as "one of the major Scottish poets of the modern era" because of his "mastery of his chosen medium and his engagement with the European poetic tradition and European politics". Nobel Prize Laureate Seamus Heaney credited MacLean with saving Scottish Gaelic poetry.
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