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Inveraray Argyllshire Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Duke of Argyll to William Talbot Aveline, 1873-1894

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/7
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Duke of Argyll to William Talbot Aveline sub-series consists of:


  1. 59 letters to the Duke of Argyll (1888-1893) arranged chronologically
  2. 4 telegrams from the Duke of Argyll (1890) arranged chronologically
  3. 4 letters to William Talbot Aveline (1873-1894) arranged chronologically
Dates: 1873-1894

Notes on rocks around Iona and Lismore; whether the rocks have been sculpted; and place-names connected to them, c1893

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/84
Scope and Contents Notes on rocks around Iona and Lismore including the tidal sgeirs called An Draidhean and Lieth sgeir [An Dreadhan, Liath Sgeir, Lios Mòr, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] including their situations and that rock from Liath Sgeir was quarried for tombstones on Lismore and I Chaluim Chille/Iona. Also notes that Lithe [liath] or Li is the word for a flagstone, Leac-lithe [leac-liath] being the term for tombstone in Lismore, Iona and Inbhir Aora/Inveraray. He notes that Inis nan Draoidhean or Inis...
Dates: c1893

Notes on the use of Lios Mòr/Lismore for burials, September 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/77
Scope and Contents

Notes on the use of Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire for burials, including that people would come from Inbhir Aora/Inveraray and the surrounding country to bury their dead, that Dun fraoin and Tor-an-aolaich, at the north end of Achnacrois were big burial sites [Dùn Fraoin, Tòrr an Aolaich and Achnacroish]. A man called Cheyne offended Roman Catholics by taking two cartloads of bones from Uamh Dhùn Fraoin to the Roman Catholic burial ground.

Dates: September 1870

Placename note for Barr na brac, 1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/121
Scope and Contents

Placename note for Barr na brac [possibly for or near Auchnabreac] which is described as being within three miles of Inveraray from Furnace and now in the farm of Dailchenna [Inbhir Aora, An Fhùirneis and Dalchenna Farm, all Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. The text has been scored through in pencil.

Dates: 1894