Kilmaliew or Glenaray

Kilmaliew or Glenaray

Under Map Sources ‘Fairhurst X’ means Map X in the Appendix to H Fairhurst’s article in Scottish Studies (12) 1968. The maps are in Inveraray Castle.

Elrigmore & Elrigbeag

It is difficult to be sure of the original order of these two properties. Pont(14) marks ‘more’ to the south of ‘beg’; Roy(PC 24) and Langlands do the opposite. See also Argyll VII No 221 p 471.

Inveraray and Kilmaliew

As Inveraray Castle policies expanded so they absorbed neighbouring settlements that were formerly distinct (see Argyll VII p 401). For instance, in 1751 the ‘Parks of Inveraray’ were described as 12½m but this valuation may include Kilmaliew. RMS IV (1592), (from an original dated 1559), refers to 2¼m of Kilmolew, Lekgarvych & Nalingfelt. AS II (222) of 1627 refers to ‘1m Kilmalew mor called Kirkland, and the 40d land (¼m) of the shieling thereof called Arriumtaggart and Legarwich of Slewlekane or Inneraray, together with the lands called Clerkland and also the 2¼m Kilmalew Beg, Legarwich and Faillinsairt, all in Glenaray’. From this we can deduce that Kilmaliew Mor was worth 1m along with the Priest’s sheiling which was worth another ¼m. Kilmaliew Beg and its components totalled 2¼m. Their total value was at least 3½m and I suspect the original value was 4m. Nalingfelt and Faillinsairt probably denote the same place. Lekgarvych, Legarwich and Slewlekane include the element leac (slab) or leacann (hill-slope) which is common just a little further south on Loch Fyne. RMS II (346) (original dated 1442) shows that 1m of Kilmolew was appropriated to the College of Kilmun.

Historical Manuscripts Commission IV p 474 No 18 and OPS II, I p 88 both refer to lands which Duncan M’Iver resigned to the Earl of Argyll in 1595. Reading from the OPS version these included ‘4m Inveraray … 10s of Aucharioch, with the other two Auchariochs, of the old extent of 30s’. In addition OPS II, I p 88 quotes from the Protocol Book of Gavin Hamilton that in 1573 the Earl of Argyll granted the Glenaray smith ‘1m (OE) of Coulechapillane and 40d of land yielding fuel within the messuage of the mains of Innerraray’. This grant is repeated in AS II (348) of 1630, to which Herbert Campbell (the editor) adds the note that the Argyll Inventory refers to ‘the 40d land of Coul’. This is probably the same land as the 40d (OE) of Coule in the burgh of Inveraray which is referred to in OPS II, I, p 88 for the year 1546. In 1559 GD 1/426/1/23/42 refers to the 6s 8d land of the Mains or messuage of Inveraray.

It seems likely that Inveraray (12½m in 1751) included 4m Inveraray proper, 3m Aucharioch, at least 3½m Kilmaliew and possibly 1m Coulechapillane – a total of at least 11½m.

Pennymore

Pennymore is consistently described as 5m from 1630 to 1751. In 1630 3m of Pennymore proper included 1m of Kendmore.

For shielings on the Douglas Water see Argyll VII (219).