Photocopied extracts from `The Scottish Congregational Ministry 1794-1933` by Rev Dr William McNaughton.
Information about the Congegational Church on Tiree, Rev Archibald Ffarquharson and Malcom hunter.
2005.117.12
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Object Type: book extract
2005.116.1
Photocopied extract from unknown book with photos of a Celtic cross from Kirkapol.
Three photographs and information about an early 15th century Celtic cross dedicated to Abbot Fingonius and his sons Fingonius and Eage, originally from Kirkapol and now situated in Inverary Castle gardens.
2004.201.1
Copied extract from `Geographical Collections relating to Scotland` by Walter MacFarlane.
Medieval (?) description of Tiree, Gunna, Coll and Iona given by the Bishop of the Isles, John Fraser.
2004.201.2
Copied extract from `Account of Skerryvore Lighthouse` by Alan Stevenson.
Plan of Skerryvore rocks at high and low tides, chart of the position of Skerryvore rocks in relation to Tiree surveyed in 1846 (2 pages) and plan of the Hynish complex showing the pier, dock, reservoir, lightkeepers` and seamen`s houses, etc. (2 pages).
2001.158.2
Photocopied book extract from `George Douglas, Eighth Duke of Argyll` edited by the Dowager Duchess of Argyll, pp 133-147, 285-6, 321, 508 & 633.
Extracts about the landscape of Tiree, its people and surroundings seas, Skerryvore lighthouse, the potato famine and emigration, some local birds and bird-shooting.
2004.118.2
Photocopied extract from `Lonely Planet – Scotland` by Neil Wilson and Alan Murphy, pp 283-284.
Lonely Planet entires for Coll and Tiree giving transport, accomodation, sights and activities.
2004.106.3
Photocopied extract from `Highland Settler` by Charles Dunn, pp 18-19, 28-31, 58-63, 80-83, 110.
Book extracts about John MacLean, the MacLean Bard.
2004.107.2
Extract from `Inhabitants of Argyll Estate`, 1779, pp 70-115.
Argyll Estate census of 1779 for Mull and Iona
2001.13.1
Extract from the `Quarterly Review` of 1849, pp 370-389.
Review of Alan Stevenson`s `Account of Skerryvore Lighthouse, with Notes on the Illumination of Lighthouses` published in 1848.
2000.156.7
Photocopied extract from unknown publication about the flora of Coll, Gunna and Tiree.
Results of a field study carried out by the Department of Botany, King`s College, University of Durham during 1939 and 1940.