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ALNESS, river, town, and parish in east side of Ross-shire. The river runs 14 miles eastward and south-eastward to Cromarty Firth, at about 10 miles north-north-east of Dingwall, and it forms the boundary between Alness and Rosskeen parishes. The town stands on the river, near its mouth, adjacent to the Highland j Railway ; consists of Alness proper, in Alness parish, and Alness Bridge or Bridgend of Alness, in Rosskeen parish, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Inverness, a railway station, a banking office, an Established church, a Free church, and 2 public schools. Pop. of Alness proper, about 202 ; of Alness Bridge, 942. The parish measures about 20 miles in length, and about 5 miles in mean breadth. Real property in 1880-81, 8531. Pop.1033. The tract adjacent to the firth is mostly flat, arable, and embellished ; but the other parts are hilly or mountainous, and extensively barren. Novar House, in the lower part, is a fine feature ; and 2 lakes and Aultgrande burn richly diversify the uplands. There are 3 schools for 191 scholars, and 2 of them and an enlargement for 131 are new.