Cromarty Firth firth. Cromarty Firth The Cromarty Firth (; ; literally "kyles <nowiki>[</nowiki>straits] of Cromarty") is an arm of the Moray Firth in Scotland. The entrance to the Cromarty Firth is guarded by two precipitous headlands; the one on the north 151 metres high and the one on the south 141 metres high — called "The Sutors" from a fancied resemblance to a couple of shoemakers (in Scots, "souters") bent over their lasts. From the Sutors the Firth extends inland in a westerly and then south-westerly direction for a distance of 19 miles (30.6 kilometres). Excepting between Nigg Bay and Cromarty Bay
Firth of Lorn Firth of Lorn The Firth of Lorn or Lorne () in origin refers to the waters off the coast of a now obsolete geopolitical region, Lorn or Lorne. A firth in Scottish English is a long estuary, the same as or similar to a fjord, although somewhat arbitrary in application. The name of Lorn descends from the proto-history of Scotland. A nineteenth-century geographical reference defines it as being a district in the county of Argyllshire, where the –shire segment reflects a former political status of Argyll. Lorn was a maritime district, located on Scotland's west coast, on the eastern shore