Digitised copy of Account of rents owing to the Earl of Argyll for Colonsay and Oronsay, Tiree, Mornish, Treshnish and Gometra, Jura and Ulva dated 1677.
Provides an account of intromissions and feu duties owed for land in Colonsay, Oronsay, Terie (Tiree), Morinish (Mornish), Treshinish (Treshnish), Gomitra (Gometra), Jura, and Ulva by Archibald Campbell of Crackaig; Donald Campbell of Ballenalie; the Tacksmen of Mornish, Treshnish and Gometra; Alexander Campbell of Torbolls; John Campbell, Bailie of Jura; John Campbell of Killenalen; Duncan McArthor [McArthur] of Cultouns. The record is dated 1677 but provides details of amounts owed in the years ’80’ to ’91’.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of the account for the rental of Aross in Mull, 1669. The document is written in Latin, and mentions the Earl of Argyll, Aros, Allain McCleane of Duart (Sir Allan Maclean, 3rd Baronet and chief of Clan Maclean), and Gululmo Sharp of Stanyhill (possibly Sir William Sharp of Stonyhill).
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Account of the rental of Aross in Mull, 1657-1658, made at Edinburgh by Archibald, Earl of Argyll in 1659.
The account provides details of the feu duty of his lands in Arroiss (Aros) in Mull from Martinmas 1657 to Martinmas 1658, as well as a sum paid for the release of Sir Lachlan Maclean of Duart (chief of Clan Maclean) and for lands in Teerie (Tiree) and Morverne (Morvern). Maclean was imprisoned by Archibald Campbell and released before his death in 1648.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Account of the rental of Aross in Mull, 1649-1657, made at Edinburgh by Archibald, Earl of Argyll, 1658. The account provides details of the feu duty of his lands in Arroiss (Aros) in Mull from Martinmas 1649 to Martinmas 1657, as well as a sum paid for the release of Sir Lachlan Maclean of Duart (1st Baronet and chief of Clan Maclean) and for lands in Terie (Tiree) and Morverne (Morvern).
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of Memorial about the set of Benbuy (Beinne Bhuidhe), 1681. The Memorial discusses: the set (lease) of the land in 1678; numbers of livestock kept on the land (including ‘meares’, ‘deere’, cows and stirks); the management of deer on the land; salaries of the ‘taxmen’ (tacksmen – tenant farmers).
The Memorial names several tenants – McConochy, Nicoll McNicoll of Elerchemore and Dougall McEllure of Killblaan – and other place names. The second page contains further remarks on cows, ‘meares’ and ‘deere’ on the land and prospect of the 9th Earl of Argyll making an advance in exchange for half the ‘old benefite’.
Notes in a later hand record that document is ‘very interesting’ and that it contains the ‘handwriting of the 9thEarl of Argyll’ as well as old place names.
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Digitised copy of Memorandum of the rental of Tiree, Morvern, Mull etc at Inveraray, October 1674. The document lists the value of Tirie (Tiree) in tirungs (an ounceland – a measure of land). Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, took over Tiree and other lands from the MacLeans of Duart, Mull in 1674. The document mentions a payment to McLean for the building of the harbour of Tiree.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Transcript of a Police Report submitted to Henry Nisbet, Tobermory Procurator Fiscal, by Finlay Fraser, Detective Constable, regarding the discovery of a human body on the shore at Sandaig on 26 January 1860. The deceased could be identified as George Murray, captain of the smack Swan of Belfast, by their appearance, the location of the body and by papers found in the deceased’s pockets. The Swan of Belfast was wrecked in January 1860.
Digitised copy of Augmentations arising from farms set in Tiree, 1777. Contains a table showing the ‘State of Augmentation arising from Farms Set in Tiry at Whitsunday 1777’. The names of tenants are included, along with details of augmentation, old rent and new rent. Names include Lamont, McLeod, Brown, McDonald, McLean, Campbell, MacPhail, MacCallum, McPhaden, McKinnon, McInnes, Reid, Bald, McIntyre, McNiven, McArthur.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Compact, leather-covered, Gaelic ‘Biobull / Bible’, produced by Comunn-Bhiobull Duthchail na h-Alba. On the inside front cover is written ‘Cornaig Sunday School. For Mary Ishbel MacDonald [Kenovay], with every good wish for the future, J Gillies, 28/8/46. John Gillies was the Church of Scotland Missionary on Tiree for 17 years (1937-1954), teaching Sunday School in Gaelic and English.
