North Headland of Scotland Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Multi Media Mapping.     Strathnaver is the ancestral home of the Mackays. It is a region in the very north-west of Scotland, corresponding to the northern part of the modern county of Sutherland. The Mackays at one time possessed the stretch of land known as "Lord Reay's Country" from Drimholisten to Kylescue.