O/S map sheet LXV.5.
Map of the Kirkapol area at a scale of 25 inches to mile (1:2,500).
2005.145.13
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2005.145.14
O/S map sheet LXXVIII.6.
Map of the Balinoe/Balephuil/Loch Bhasapol area at a scale of 25 inches to mile (1:2,500).
2005.145.15
O/S map sheet LXXVIII.7.
Map of the Balinoe/Balemartine/Mannal area at a scale of 25 inches to mile (1:2,500).
2005.86.6
DVD `The Edge of the World` by Michael Powell.
1937 black and white film by Michael Powell which tells the story of a remote island and its inhabitants whos traditions and way of life are threatened by a rapidly industrialising world.
2005.2.1
Video recording of Grampian TV`s `Rising to the Challenge` broadcast on 28/1/2004.
Grampian TV programme about the Calor Gas Community of the Year Award featuring Pultenaytown in Wick and Tiree with Catriona MacLennan, Liz Lapsley, Iain MacKinnon (Hillcrest), RSPB John Bowler, Colin Woodcock and others with shots of An Talla, the Rural Centre and Loch Bhasapol.
2000.61.24
CD Pròiseact Thiriodh CD-SA1974-72.
Hector Kennedy of Kilkenneth talks about the former residents at Balephuil Cnoc, the shepherd to MacNiven of Barrapol, the Barrapol grazing committee, Donald MacNeill the tailor, the families who lived at the Land, the former residents of the Bail’ Ùr and the Rudha and the life of John Kennedy who died around 1920.
2000.61.49
Mini-disk SA1974/72.
Hector Kennedy of Kilkenneth talks about the former residents at Balephuil Cnoc, the shepherd to MacNiven of Barrapol, the Barrapol grazing committee, Donald MacNeill the tailor, the families who lived at the Land, the former residents of the Bail’ Ùr and the Rudha and the life of John Kennedy who died around 1920.
2004.206.5
Paperback book `The Soay of our Forefathers` by Laurance Reed.
Account of the island of Soay between the Starthaird peninsula and the Cuillins of Skye from the 13th century, when it came into the posession of chiefs of the clan MacLeod, to the evacuation of 1953 when the remaining inhabitants were re-housed in Mull.
2004.206.6
Paperback book `North Uist in History and Legend` by Bill Lawson.
Stories about North Uist drawn form formal recorded history and the rich tradition of story and song.
2001.19.1
Framed photograph of Turnbull`s 1768-9 map of Tiree
Turnbull`s 1768-9 map of Tiree, original of which is in the collection of the Duke of Argyll at Inverary Castle and copied by RCAHMS.
Tiree in 100 Objects – 1 – The Turnbull Map
We start this epic series with a map. It is huge – 8 feet by 6 – and painted on canvas. It belongs to the Duke of Argyll and sits in his archives at Inveraray Castle. We have a small copy in An Iodhlann. In 1768 the Campbells had owned Tiree for less than one hundred years, but already the Duke had decided to use his crown jewel not as a clan chief, but as its landlord. Driving up revenues from this fertile island was this main aim, and moving a medieval farming system into the modern age was his method. First he needed to know the island’s potential.
Heanish area of Turnbull’s map of Tiree, hand-painted 1768
James Turnbull was his chosen surveyor for this enterprise. We know very little about him, other than it took him five weeks to travel to Tiree and return to his Edinburgh home. But he was obviously a supremely skilled professional and his map a thing of lasting beauty as well as being a treasure trove of information about the island in the 18th century. The boundaries of the old farming townships curve through the landscape (for example either side of the Caolas road), every house is drawn in its place and every field and its furrows are marked precisely. The map was drawn thirty years before the crofts were marked out: the thirty or so houses in Vaul are clustered at the bay, just east of Seaside, while the township’s cropped fields cover the golf course!
Turnbull also wrote an accompanying field-by-field report: ‘Barapol: Field number 44; Infield; A compound of loam, gravel and clay, a good soil’. He calculated that 3,474 acres, 25% of Tiree’s land area, were sown with oats and barley – numbers we can only dream about today!
Dr John Holliday, 2016