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Groundskeeper

​A groundskeeper, also known as a turf manager or field manager, is responsible for maintaining and managing outdoor spaces, particularly sports fields, parks, and gardens. Here are some of their primary duties:

  1. Lawn Care: Mowing, watering, fertilizing, and aerating grass to keep it healthy and visually appealing.

  2. Field Preparation: Marking lines and boundaries for sports events, ensuring the field is ready for play.

  3. Repairs: Fixing any damage to the turf, such as filling in holes, reseeding worn areas, and repairing irrigation systems.

  4. Equipment Maintenance: Taking care of tools and machinery used for groundskeeping, like mowers, trimmers, and sprinklers.

  5. Weather Management: Preparing the grounds for various weather conditions, including covering fields during rain and ensuring proper drainage.

  6. Safety Inspections: Regularly checking the grounds for hazards, ensuring a safe environment for users.

​Inverness-shire (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Nis) or the County of Inverness, is a historic county in Scotland. It is named after Inverness, its largest settlement, which was also the county town. Covering much of the Highlands and some of the Hebrides, it is Scotland's largest county by land area. It is generally rural and sparsely populated, containing only three towns which held burgh status, being Inverness, Fort William and Kingussie. The county is crossed by the Great Glen, which contains Loch Ness and separates the Grampian Mountains to the south-east from the Northwest Highlands. The county also includes Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in both Scotland and the United Kingdom.

The county ceased to be used for local government purposes in 1975. Since then, the parts of the county on the mainland and in the Inner Hebrides have been part of the Highland region, which was redesignated a council area in 1996. The Outer Hebrides parts of the county became part of the Western Isles, which since 1998 has used only the Scots Gaelic version of its name, Na h-Eileanan an Iar. The neighbouring counties prior to the 1975 reforms were (clockwise from north) Ross and Cromarty, Nairnshire, Moray, Banffshire, Aberdeenshire, Perthshire and Argyll. The mainland part of the county had a coast to the east onto the Moray Firth, and a much longer coast to the west onto the Sea of the Hebrides.

The historic county boundaries of Inverness-shire are still used for certain functions, being a registration county. There is also an Inverness lieutenancy area which covers the mainland part of the pre-1975 county and the Small Isles, as well as the parts of the historic counties of Argyll and Moray that were transferred to Highland.

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