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Raah Taransay Invernes-shire Scotland

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Note about Taransay House and theland quality on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 10 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/62
Scope and Contents

Note about Taransay House, Tarasaigh/Taransay describing its dimensions, construction and estimating it to have been built about three hundred years before [c1570]. Also mentioned is the 'fine large garden [of] good soil but ill cultivated' which leads on to a description of the land quality on the island, the presence of lazybeds and the 'Beautiful grazing...espe[cially] at Aoi Paible and RĂ  good water' [Uidh, Paibeil and Raah].

Dates: 10 July 1870