Photocopied letter from the Parish Council Clerk D. MacPhail dated 9/8/1895.
Letter from the Parish Council Clerk D. MacPhail dated 9/8/1895 to the Duke`s chamberlain with a excerpt from the Parich Council minutes listing the number of applicants wanting to lease small holdings and allotments from the Council.
MacDiarmid’s Report on Applicants for Allotments November 1893
Transcription of Hugh MacDiarmid’s report on applicants to the County Council for small holdings and allotments in 1893.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
In November 1893 the Tiree factor for Argyll Estates Hugh MacDiarmid reported on a hundred and seventeen islanders who had applied to the County Council for small holdings and allotments under the Small Holding Act of the previous year.
The Council was required by the Act to investigate whether a petition for small holdings was ‘presented in good faith and on reasonable grounds’ and to inquire into the circumstances of the petitioners. Most of those assessed in MacDiarmid’s report had little or no means.
The Act allowed councils to let small holdings, instead of offering them for sale, where ‘persons desirous of themselves cultivating small holdings are unable to buy’ and the land did not exceed fifteen acres in extent.
Photocopied letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid to the Duke`s chamberlain dated 27/9/1890.
Letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid to the Duke`s chamberlain dated 27/9/1890 about Tom Barr`s apllication for fencing in Balephetrish and the repayment of loans made to fishermen.
Photocopied handwritten letter from Hugh MacDiamid dated 11/9/1899.
Letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 11/9/1899 to the Duke`s chamberlain about a hay shed in Heylipol, the water supply to the Lodge, Donald Cameron – a squatter in Hough, cottars not paying rent and the croft of the late Neil MacLean, Caoles.
Audio cassette recording of (a) the opening ceremony at Tur Mhic Chaluim and (b) Hugh MacDonald, Kenovay recorded by Margaret MacKay of the School of Scottish Studies.
Audio recording of Side A – the opening ceremony at Tur Mhic Chaluim on 26/7/1986 with introduction by Alec MacArthur, Ronald MacDonald of Cornaigbeg talking about 19th century emigration, Neil Brownlie and Prof. Donald Meek talking about the Rev. Donald MacCallum, and Hugh Archie MacLean of Salum talking about the way forward for crofters today, Side B – The late Hugh MacDonald of Kenovay talks to Margaret MacKay of the School of Scottish Studies about his piping days.
Two photocopied extracts from Volume III of the evidence taken by the Napier Commission, pp 2128-82.
One bound and one unbound transcript of the evidence given by the crofters and cottars in Tiree.
Photocopied notice by factor Lachlan MacQuarie dated 1855 restricting the consumption of alcoholic spirits.
Notice by factor Lachlan MacQuarie dated 16/11/1855 prohibiting tenants paying less than £30 rent from drinking alcholic spirits at any public gatherings on pain of dispossession.
Photocopied list of removings in Tyree for Whitsunday 1872.
List of crofters and cottars to be evicted from their houses on Whitsunday 1872.
Transcription of the Rental of Tiree for 1743.
List of tenants for each township transcribed from a volume of the Chamberlain`s Accounts in the Argyll papers at Inverary Castle, retaining the original spellings.
Photocopied extract from `Argyll Estate Instructions`.
Instruction to the chamberlain of Tiry from the Duke of Argyll, October 1801. Subject include redistribution of land, the cessation of peat-cutting on the island, monetary assistance for building houses and for fishing equipment.
