Foulis Castle Historic Tours and Accommodation by the Cromarty Firth Dingwall

Foulis Estate is highly visible from the Black Isle, just north of Inverness and forms an important part of the very attractive vista of the Cromarty firth, farmland and foothills against the magnificent backdrop of Ben Wyvis 1046m (3432ft).

Foulis Estate is still owned by the Chief of the Clan Munro who is himself a qualified Land Agent.

Once part of a much larger property, the Munro family have owned Foulis for over 700 years and in the last sixty it has been managed principally as one ‘in hand’ farm. Foulis centred around its historic Castle is a typical small Easter Ross mixed farming and forestry Estate with a number of let houses/cottages/commercial buildings and extending to approximately 1060 hectares (2650 acres) of land on the north shore of the Cromarty Firth, sixteen miles north of Inverness, and four miles east of the market town of Dingwall.

The Estate lies roughly along a six kilometre (four mile) long east/west axis. The land rises initially quite sharply from the foreshore (part of the Cromarty Firth Special Site of Scientific Interest (SSSI) and unusually owned by the family and not the Crown) to a raised beach dating back to the last ice age, then on a gentle incline through deciduously wooded arable land interspersed with small mixed plantations and intersected by wooded burns before rising steeply again to upland pastures and extending over an afforested ridge of conifers topped by Cnoc Mhabairn at 322m (1056ft) which forms the focal point of the area comprising the estate's main commercial conifer forest.

From Cnoc Mhabairn and the Srongarbh ridge, the land descends down a moderate slope in a northerly direction into Strath Sgitheach and to the River Sgitheach which forms the north-west march (boundary) of the estate.