Inverness-shire

Inverness-shire or the County of Inverness (Siorrachd Inbhir Nis in ) is one of the of. Until 1975 it was a.

The registration county is made up of the historic districts of (without ), parts of  and. The, established a uniform system of s and councils in Scotland and restructured many of. (See: ).

The former county covered a large mainland area and various island areas off the west. The mainland area had coastline in both the east and the west and included the towns of, and. The island areas included, , and in the , and  and Eigg in the  in the. Until 1891 the mainland area was somewhat fragmented (but much less so than some other county areas in Scotland). In that year changes were made following recommendations of the appointed under the 1889 Act. From 1891 onwards Inverness-shire had neighbouring counties as follow: to the north,, ,  and  to the east, and  and  to the south. The was.

Today the former county area is divided between the of,  and.

In, the was passed, formally incorporating the tiny island of  into Scotland as part of the , Inverness-shire (Harris is not part of the modern registration county).

Constituency
There was an of the  from 1708 to 1801 and of the  from 1801 to 1918. The constituency represented the county of Inverness-shire minus the of, which was represented as a component of.

In 1918 the county constituency was divided between the and the, which were both then new constituencies. The Inverness constituency included the burgh of Inverness, other components of the being divided between the  and the.

In 1983, eight years after the local government county of Inverness-shire had been divided between the and  regions and the  council area, the Inverness constituency was replaced, largely by the.