Ordnance Survey map sheet LXXVIII.9.
Map of Ceann a` Bhara at a scale of 1:2,500.
2005.145.5
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2005.145.6
O/S map sheet XLIX.14.
Map of the Caoles/Urvaig area at a scale of 25 inches to mile (1:2,500).
2005.145.9
O/S map sheet LXXVIII.14 & 15.
Map of the southern coastal areas of Hynish and West Hynish area at a scale of 25 inches to mile (1:2,500).
2005.145.10
O/S map sheet XLIX.14.
Map of the Caoles/Urvaig area at a scale of 25 inches to mile (1:2,500).
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.
2000.153.1
Paperback book `The Highlands and Islands of Scotland` by Angus and Patricia MacDonald.
Brief history of the Highlands and Islands illustrated with lavish colour photographs.
1997.273.1
Tirey
Transcription of an extract from ‘Tirey’ in ‘The Rev. Dr. John Walker’s Report on the Hebrides of 1764 and 1771’ edited by Margaret M. MacKay.
Courtesy of John Donald Publishers
The Rev Dr John Walker, minister of Moffat and a pioneer of scientific botany and geology, was sent to the Hebrides in 1764 and 1771 by the Commission for Annexed Estates to report on the social conditions, population and the state of manufacture, agriculture and fisheries.
He found the waters round Tiree teeming with fish but no fishing equipment on the island. In 1792, Rev Archibald McColl lamented that the local fishermen seemed unable to compete with those from other islands or the east coast who were taking full advantage of the nearby fishing banks.
The reasons for this he attributed to the daily involvement of crofters with their land and animals and to their poverty which disinclined them to risk what little savings they had purchasing equipment easily lost in bad weather.
2000.122.6
Hardback book `A Mosaic of Islands` by Kenneth Williamson and J Morton Boyd.
Account by two naturalists of their journeys around inaccessible places to study wildlife.
De-accessioned 1.3.2026.
2004.36.6
Copy of letter dated 8/3/2004 to Katinka Stentoft from Alasdair Sinclair of Brock.
Information about Norse settlements of Tiree and difficulties in identifying them: the effects of wind-blown sand on the landscape, the scarcity of stone for building, the frequent winter flooding and the need for ditching, and the road-building programme during World War II (with three pages of photocopied photos). (For Katinka Stentoft`s settlement survey see 2004.40.1)
2001.143.10
Report `Assessment of Landform Change in Dune/Machair Systems of Coll and Tiree` by Alistair Dawson, 1999.
Report of the changesin the dune/machair systems at selected beaches in Tiree and Coll following field reconnaissance and mapping in 1998.