Digitised copy of State of the difference between the Tiree rental 1757 and the Tiree rental 1758. This record contains a table showing the differences in rent for farms at Kilmoluaig and Beist, Balivilline [Balevullin], Cornaigmore, Cornaigbeg, Ruaig, Kirkapol, Hianish, Vaul, ¾ of Kelis [Caolas], Baugh, Heylipol, Balinoe and Quiyeish [Hynish].
Digitised copy of Instructions for the chamberlain of Tiree, 23 October 1750. These instructions were sent from the Duke of Argyll and include: land erosion (particularly at Cladich-chrogan in Balephetrish); quarrying, use of tenants to build a stone barricade; draining the Loch of Kirkapol; cutting of turf; tiends; Lachlan McLean at Ruaig and the building of a lint miln there; tenants in arrears; quarrels with McCualrigs; the pulling of bear [barley] and making gredan meal; growing hempseed on Tiree; sand drifts in Kelis [Caoles], Ballevilline [Balevullin], Keylipol and Quiyeish; arrangements for disposing of the product of the island; the farm at Crossapol; sending salt beef to market; use of planks; Hector McLean of Coll and the rental of the two ends of Coll; Donald McMillan and the tack of Beist; Memorial of Hector and Alexander McLean, who claaim to be unjustly turned out of their tack of Gott and Vuill by Barnecarry.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Colour photo postcard of a thatched crofthouse at Balevullin in around 1975-80. The house was known as Taigh Màiri Nic Mhaoilein and later as the artist Frances Walker’s house.
Transcript of a Police Report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal by John MacDougall (Constable) charging Flora MacLean or MacMillan with Breach of Peace and Assault on 2 July 1872. Flora MacLean (wife of Niel MacMillan, Balevullin) is charged with assaulting Ann Lamont or MacLean (wife of Archibald MacLean, Balevullin).
Ann Lamont or MacLean (above), John MacDougall (cotter, Balevullin), and Niel Kennedy (crofter, Balevullin) are named as witnesses and provide statements.
Transcript of Precognition of Witnesses regarding the sudden death of Euphemia McMillan, 1852. McMillan (widow, Balevullin) died after drinking spirits at the inn of Lachlan Maclean in Kilmoluaig.
Statements are provided by:
Lachlan Maclean (Innkeeper, Kilmoluaig) Archibald Maclean (Seaman, Kilmoluaig) John MacMillan (Fisherman, Balevullin) Neil McMillan (Fisherman, Balevullin) Sarah Kennedy (Balevullin) Donald MacNeill (Fisherman, Balevullin) Sarah Cameron or MacMillan (wife of John MacMillan, Balevullin) Lachlan Cameron (Fisherman, Balevullin) Ann Macdonald (Servant to and residing with Lachlan Maclean, Kilmoluaig) Niel Lamont (son of John Lamont, Cornaigmore)
Bound extract from ‘Kenneth Cameron Family Chronicle’ by Gordon Cameron Richardson, Canada, 2020, about Kenneth Cameron, Balevullin (1816-1871), who emigrated to Canada in 1850 with his wife Agnes (Ann) Morrison on board the ‘Conrad’. They settled on a 100 acre farm in Osprey Township, Grey County in the early 1850s. Kenneth’s great-great grandfather, also Kenneth Cameron, was born in Balevullin in around 1734. The full text includes all Canadian family and descendants, and is available from An Iodhlann in pdf format.
Photocopies of four newspaper articles (1926) and online information (2019) about the Fleetwood steam fishing trawler ‘ST Gaul’ that was swamped by a massive wave and wrecked on a submerged reef off Balevullin in 1926. The crew (all Grimsby men) took to a lifeboat but it overturned in the swell, and seven lost their lives. Two managed to reach the shore.
Bronze spring of a Roman brooch (late 1st to 2nd century AD) from a collection of around 200 bronze objects found by amateur archaeologist George Holleyman at Balevullin in 1941-43, when he served at RAF Tiree during WWII. Identified by Dr Fraser Hunter, National Museum of Scotland, in 2019.
