Digitised copy of the Rental of Mull, 1679. The document provides the rent ‘as it was given up by the Baillie and officers therein’ for the lands of Torissay (Torosay), Ross, Broloiss, Icalumkill (Iona), Aross (Aros), Morennish (Mornish).
This document is written in secretary hand. There is no transcript for this item.
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 of the rental of Aross in Mull received by Colin Campbell, Chamberlain in 1693. Contains the value of pennylands in Ross (Ross of Mull), Morinish (Mornish), Aross (Aros) and Torosay.
This document is written in secretary hand. No transcript is available for this item.
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, 1643-1649.
The first page of this document is written in Latin and mentions Archibald Marquess of Argyll, Lauchlane McCleane (Sir Lachlan Maclean, 1st Baronet and chief of Clan Maclean) and the lands of Aross (Aros), Terie (Tiree) and Morverne (Morvern).
This document is written in secretary hand. No transcript is available for this item.
From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
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).
This document is written in secretary hand. No transcript is available for this item.
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.
This document is written in secretary hand. No transcript is available for this item.
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).
This document is written in secretary hand. No transcript is available for this item.
From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
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.
This document is written in secretary hand. No transcript is available for this item.
From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Two colour photographs of the front and back of a crude wooden cross, hand-carved from a driftwood branch, probably pine. The back has been fashioned to hang flat on a wall. Found in the dunes at Salum Bay in 1998, it hung in ‘The Wee Church’ at Ruaig.
As there are no pine trees on Tiree, it is likely to have drifted there from Coll or Mull.
Transcript of Precognition of Witnesses regarding the death of Roderick McInnes in November 1866. McInnes (aged 28, seaman, Eriskay) died after falling overboard the SS Argyll as it passed Caliach Point at the Sound of Mull.
Statement are provided by Duncan Morison (mate on board the SS Argyll) and Charles Cameron (son of Hugh Cameron, Fracadale, Mull).
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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
