Appin
| Name | Value | Date | Grid Ref | Map Sources | Other forms, comments etc |
| Achingen with Blarenehauld | 2d | 1329 | GD112/62/1/1. Achingen = Achnacone.
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| Achnacone | 4m | 1470 | NM 9445/9446 | Blaeu(Lorn) | 3m AS II (944) 1657 but (945) is the other 1m; 4m(1470, 1634, 1738). =Auchingewall in 1329 (RRS V (374))? |
| Feorling | 1m | 1657 | c. NM 9545/9645 | Langlands(1801) | AS II (945) makes it clear this is 1m of Achnacone. The boundaries are given in detail. This may also be the 1m Auchnyngone of AS II (494) 1634. Feorling = farthingland. |
| ‘Finaltin’ | 1m | 1470 | Langlands(1801)
Thomson(1824) |
OPS II, I p 167 gives 2m for 1470. Finnalton(1663); Feonalt in Langlands & Thomson. N of Achnacone in Langlands but positioning looks awry. | |
| Annat | 1595 | c. NM 9446 | Langlands(1801) | ‘brewhouse’ & croft (OPS II, I pp167-8 quoting Protocol Book of Gavin Hamilton), also in GD170/47 of 1740, marches defined. | |
| Kynlouchlyne | 1d | 1329 | GD112/62/1/1. Kynlouchlyne = Kinlochlaich. | ||
| Kinlochlaich | 8m | 1470 | NM 9346 | Blaeu(Lorn)
Langlands(1801) |
Kinlochlyon(1329), 8m Keanlochlagan(1470), 8m Kendlochlean (1628), 8m Kenloichlaich(1751), Kenloch Laen(Blaeu).
Presumably 8m included a neighbouring farm? Glenstockdale? |
| Glenstockdale
Glenscadele |
1d |
1329 |
NM 9448 | Pont(12) | = Glenstandill in 1329 (RRS V (374))? Glenstakkail in Pont(12).
Glenscadele should read Glenstadele? Into Kinlochlaich above? |
| Kilhagy with
Achynesellach |
2d | 1329 | GD112/62/1/1. Killargie in 1329 (RRS V (374) & HP IV pp 193-4). This must be the old church-site in Appin. A pennyland kirk? | ||
| Achosrigan | 2m | 1470 | NM 9347 | Blaeu(Lorn) | Achichoskrachan(1470), consistently 2m(1470-1751) |
| Shuna | 4m | 1511 | NM 9148/9149 | Pont(12)
Blaeu(Lorn) |
OPS II, I p165 quoting Argyle Inventory. 6m in Macf. Geog. Coll. II p 155 but no valuation on p 516. See below. |
| Blar-nan-Laogh | 1m | 1628 | NM 9948 | ‘Barnaley in Glenhivill’ (1628) | |
| Coire Lom | 1m | 1470 | NM 9847 | Corelorne(1470)? See below under Corrielorn. | |
| Lurignich | 2m | 1751 | NM 9450 | ||
| Creagan | 2m | 1564 | NM 9744 | Blaeu(Lorn)
Langlands(1801) |
Priory of Ardchattan’s |
| Ardnaclach | 4m | 1622 | NM 9443 | Blaeu(Lorn) | Macf. Geog. Coll. II pp 154-5 & 516. |
| Coelard | 2m | 1512 | NM 9242 | Blaeu(Lorn) | Killard(1512), Kilzeare(1623), Kylzard(1637) |
| Ledgrianach | 2m | 1512 | NM 9243 | Blaeu(Lorn) | Lard Grenocht(1512), Ladgrinach(Blaeu), Leadgrinach(1637) |
| Blarchasgaig | 1m | 1637 | NM 9345 | ||
| Glaceriska | 1m | 1637 | NM 918448 | Blaeu(Lorn)
OS(1871) |
½m in AS II (352) 1631 but in 5 other documents it is 1m |
| ‘Ardveich’ | 1m | 1651 | c. NM 9045? | Blaeu(Lorn) | In 1751 it included the ‘Small Isles’ so probably SW of Ardtur. |
| Ardtur | 4m | 1512 | NM 9146 | Blaeu(Lorn)? | Arthur(1512), ‘with the crofts called Craignaneranach & Typhort'(AS II (38) 1618). ?=Ardeurich in Blaeu. |
| Invernahyle | 3m | 1470 | NM 9544 | Blaeu(Lorn) | 3m Invernahyle & pendicle thereof called Feoline (GD112/2/88/4 of 1738), = Feorling or ¼d? |
| Airigh-Mheadhon
Arymeyhne |
1m
½d |
1638
1329 |
NM 9747 | Langlands(1801) |
GD112/62/1/1. |
| Inverfolla
Innerpollane |
2m
1d |
1637
1329 |
NM 9544 | 2m Inverpollan(1637)
GD112/62/1/1. |
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| Salachail | 2m | 1751 | NN 0551 | Langlands(1801) | In Glen Creran |
| Fasnacloich | 2m | 1751 | NN 0147 | Blaeu(Lorn)
RHP 3484 RHP 44128 |
In Glen Creran |
| Elleric | 1m | 1657 | NN 0348 | RHP 44128 | In Glen Creran |
| Leitir Mhor | 4m | 1633 | c. NM 9248/9249
/9349 |
Pont(12)
Langlands(1801) |
Alternatively called Lettirshuna. Now the west-facing slopes of Dallens Hill? |
| Glasdrum
Glasdrimie |
4m
1d |
1623
1329 |
NN 014464 | Blaeu(Lorn)
OS(1871) |
GD112/62/1/1. In Glen Creran. NB AS II (365) 1631 – reversion dated 1517. With Fasnacloich as 8m in 1539(OPS II, I p167 quoting Argyle Inventory). See below. |
| Hewildis & Cormanwechraykis | 1d | 1329 | GD112/62/1/1. Hewildis probably begins with the Gaelic definite article but I do not know where it refers to.
Cormanwechraykis = Corbhainn Uachdrach (Upper Corbhainn). |
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| Corbhainn | NN 0851 | Blaeu(Lorn)
Langlands(1801) Thomson(1824) |
Part of Glasdrum, Corphin(Langlands & Thomson) | ||
| Leitir Dhriseag | ½m | 1659 | NN 0450 | Part of Glasdrum | |
| ‘Craig Churalain’ | 1m | 1637 | NM 9844 | Blaeu(Lorn)
Langlands(1801) |
Craigquerelane(1637)
Cloich Whyrrelan(Blaeu) |
| Kalnevsuene | ½d | 1329 | GD112/62/1/1. I have no idea where this is. | ||
| Total | 58m |
Shuna
After describing Lismore, Skene’s source refers to two islands called ‘Hwnayis’ (Celtic Scotland, Vol III, Appendix III p 436). The second belonged to John Stewart of ‘Hoping’ (Appin) and was worth 4m. I think this was Shuna by Appin.
Corrielorn
Corrielorn of 1470 became Garrochorane (or similar) in 1633, 1637, 1643, 1657 and 1751. In GD112/2/88/4 of 1738 it is given as 1m Garrochurne alias Corrielorn. I am not certain it is now Coire Lom.
Creagan
Creagan (2m) was the property of Ardchattan. (GD112/2/110/1 of 1564, RMS V (691) & VI (1436), AS II (1) 1617 and (1174) of 1664).
Ardtur
The descriptions of Ardtur are quite specific eg AS II (601) of 1637: 4m Ardture with alehouse thereof Typhoirt & Illangerache Illanecherane & Illanmenacher with the castle of Illanstalker and that little isle called Illannanery adjacent to them – see H Campbell, Argyll Sasines as source.
Glasdrum
In AS II (611) of 1637 the 4m of Glasdrume included Altindeave, Lettirdrissaig, Corveane Wochtracht(=Upper) & Corvelane, all in Appin. The same lands are specified in another five sasines over the next 23 years. There is an Eas an Daimh at NM 9945. Leitir Dhriseag is at NN 0450, Corbhainn is several miles up Glen Creran at NN 0851.
Ardveich
AS II (1372) of 1667 specifies 1m Ardveich – but excluding Isle of Ramsay which is part of Ballemeanach.
I have been looking for the location of Coire Bliochdaig for two or three years. It is very close to Blar nan laogh and Garachoiran where my ancestors lived in the 1600-1700’s. They left Appin for North Carolina in 1790, sixteen related Appin/Ardchattan McLaurin families on the ship Maryann.
Cordially
Hilton McLaurin
Hilton. I don’t know if you found it but it’s listed under Ardchattan parish and located on the Ardchattan map.
It’s still marked on the Ordnance Survey Explorer Map (No 384) at NN 0245 although I expect any settlement would have been at the foot of the burn.
Best wishes, Denis
Hilton
You may already be aware of it but, if not, you might want to look at S Boardman’s article ‘The Tale of Leper John …’ in Cowan & McDonald (eds.) Alba, Tuckwell Press, 2000. It touches on early MacLaurins.
Denis
Hi Denis makes sense, or perhaps they lived at nearby Druimvuich. I noticed you did not have a location for Ardveich, Appin. I found it on Bleau’s 1645 map of Lorn, about where Port Appin is. This Ardveich is the actual home of Dougall McLaurin who became Stewart of Appin 1st. Modern scholarship has revealed that there were no MacLarens in Balquhidder or Strathearn until 1512. vicar MhicLabhrann is at Kilbodan near Ardchattan in 1420, at Kilmartin a Vicar Labhrann in 1355. Laurence Bishop of Argyll at Lismore in the late 1200’s.
The story of how John the Leper had an illegitimate child with MacLaurins makes much more sense now that we know the MacLaurins lived only a few miles north of Dunstaffnage, instead of sixty miles or more away in Balquhidder, with no roads, where the MacGregors where entrenched.I have only recently come to this realization now that I found Ardveich, Appin.
Also, the Imrich Mor latharna or the Great flitting of Lorn attributed to Dougall taking Appin, describes house moving from one part of Lorn to Appin, not from Balquhidder to Appin.
Cordially Hilton
Thank You, Hilton, for your most interesting comments. Land-assessment merely shows the economic skeleton. Family knowledge puts flesh and bones on it.