Morar Summary

Morar

 

Principal Sources

 

RSS I (2873) 1516-17

RSS II (2498, 2506) 1538, (3263) 1539-40

RMS II (2439) 1498

RMS III (1924) 1538-9

RMS IV (204) 1548, (2270), (2284), 1574

RMS VII (264, 344) 1610

RMS VIII (1064) 1627

British Library, Roy (Protracted Copy) Sheet 60

 

D Rixson, Arisaig and Morar, Tuckwell Press, 2002

A Roberts, The MacDonalds of Rhetland, TGSI LXII (2000-2002)

A Roberts, Some Placenames in Morar

 

(North)

NLS, Delvine Papers MS 1313, f8, 1633

GD44/25/29/2/5 Glengarry Estate Rental 1760

NLS, Delvine Papers MS 1313, Glengarry Estate Rental 1762 (N Morar)

Macfarlane’s Geographical Collections II pp 168, 522

C Fraser-Mackintosh, Excerpta e Sasinarum Registris Vice-Comitatum de Inverness, Vol II, No 950 (1829); Vol III No 470 (1836); Vol VI No 470 (1854)

 

RHP 3687 – Plan of North Morar, Boulton, 1834

RHP 11608 – Plan of Road from Loch Nevis to Achnacarry, G Brown, 1796

 

The documents are consistent in referring to North Morar as 12m (Old Extent) or 12d. The estate rental of 1762 gives 12⅝d plus Beoraid (probably 1 or 1½d). I find 13d (or 13½d) which is possibly an underestimate since only part of Bracara is given in 1633. (In 1762 the various parts of Bracara total 2⅛d). Although Morar was known as a 12m or 12d estate it seems that it was actually slightly more than this. From at least 1498 the South Morar estate held up to 2m of North Morar so the true total was probably at least 14d.

 

(South)

 

South Morar is often referred to as a 14m estate and I have given listings of place-names in six such documents on p 32 of Arisaig and Morar. Unfortunately none of these accounts of the South Morar estate include any individual valuations. The lists also include 3 sites in North Morar. There is a reference to the 12m of (South) Morar in GD 201/5/11/1 & 2 of 1723 but I find 14¾d excluding the properties in North Morar.

 

RMS II (2439) 1498

RSS II (2498) 1538, (3263) 1539-40

RMS VII (264, 344) 1610, IX (7) 1634, XI (1105) 1695

GD 201/1/362/1

Retours (Inverness) (47) 1627, (66) 1642, (118) 1695

C Fraser-Mackintosh, Excerpta e Sasinarum Registris Vice-Comitatum de Inverness, Vol II, No 950 (1829); Vol III No 122 (1832), No 470 (1836); Vol IV No 351 (1845); Vol VI No 470 (1854)

 

There are a number of references to parts of the South Morar estate in the Kinlochmoidart material amongst the Forfeited Estate Papers in the NAS eg:

E764/11/5(5) 1740

E 764/1/1 Rental 1748

E 764/1/2

E 764/1/3 1749

E 764/1/6, E 764/23, E 764/24/1, 1755

E 764/1/7

E 764/11/6(1) 1763

E 764/11/6 (2), (4) 1764

E 764/11/1/5(3)

 

The two parts of Morar together come to between 27¾d and 28¼d so I suspect the true total was 30d or 1½ ouncelands. We may be missing ½d of Cille Chuimein which may or may not have been the same as the ½d of Darilorcan.