Muckairn

Muckairn

 

Name Value Date Grid Ref Map Sources Other forms, comments etc
Kirktown

Kilespikerill

5m

10d

1751

1532

NN 005309 Pont(12) 10d(1617, 1622, 1631, 1634, 1728)

Kyllesbuigkerrill(1672)

Airds

=Ardagaw?

5m

10d

1751

1532

NM 9832/9833

NM 9834

Pont(12)

Langlands(1801)

10d(1617, 1728)
Airdeny 3m

6d

1663

1532

NM 9929 Pont(12)

Roy (PC 18)

6d(1617, 1621, 1634, 1728), 3m(1664)

6½m with Ballindore(1751)

Balindore 3½m

7d

1664

1532

NM 9830 Pont(12) 7d(1601, 1617, 1728)

 

Barguillean 1½m

4½d

1751

1532

NM 9828 Pont(12)? 4d only in 1617 & 1728
Skowle 1½m?

3d

1751

1532

NM 9828 Pont(12)

Roy (PC 18)

Langlands(1801)

3d(1617, 1621, 1664, 1728)

= Feoull(1751)?

Duntanachan 2m

4½d

1751

1532

NM 9628 Pont(12)? AS II (1, 11) of 1617 etc + GD 112/2/93/1 of 1728 imply that this is only half Duntanachan. 4d in 1601, 1617, 1728.
Barglas 2m

5d

1751

1532

NM 9629 Langlands(1801) AS II (1, 11) of 1617 etc + GD 112/2/93/1 of 1728 imply that this is only half Barglas.
Clachadow 4½m 1751 NM 9427 Pont(12)

Roy (PC 18)

The valuations suggest that this is the later name for Drumynturn.
Drumynturne 9d 1532     9d(1728), only 1d(1617). See Clachadow.
Glenamachrie 5m

10d

1751

1532

NM 9228 Roy (PC 18)

 

Only 1d(1617), 10d(1601, 1650, 1665, 1728). Clynemakry(1532). Always Clen… or Clyn… in past.
Auchnacoshan 3m

6d

1751

1532

NM 9231 Roy (PC 18)

 

6d(1601, 1617, 1728)
Clais Dhearg 2m

5d

1751

1532

NM 9331 Pont(12)

Langlands(1801)

Clasgarrache(1532), Glascarraig(1601), Clorsgarrok(1617)
Kilvaree 2½m

5d

1751

1532

NM 9231 Pont(12)

Langlands(1801)

OS(1871)

Kilmokowe(1532), Kilmoruy in Pont(12), Kilmolruy (1601), Kilmolrow (1617)

5d(1617, 1728), 6d(1601). See below.

Lailt 2m

5d

1751

1532

NM 925327 Langlands(1801)

OS(1871)

5d(1601, 1636, 1728), £5(1617) – which looks to be a mistake.

See below.

Kilmaronag 6½m

15d

1751

1532

NM 9334 Pont(12)

 

In 1634, 1636, 1650 & 1664 the 15d includes Auchaleven which implies it also did so at other times. Only 9d in 1622 & 1629 which may have excluded Auchaleven. In 1751 Kilmachronaig, Auchalevan & Bunlusragan were 6½m.
Auchaleven     NM 9133 Roy(PC 18) Often included with Kilmaronag. Elsewhere I would offer Ach + Leth-pheighinn for this place-name but this does not seem so likely here where the spellings include Achalemon(1621, 1634), Auchalemonie(1636), Achalemoni(1650), Achalemonie(1664).
Culnadalloch 3½m

7d

1751

1532

NM 9433 Roy(PC 18) In 1751 3½m included Cretvarran
Achnacloich

(Stonefield)

3m

5d

1628

1584

NM 9533/9534 Roy(PC 18) Ex Abbey of Inchaffray, included Ilanab(1650). 3m(1630), 4m Achnacloch in GD 202/18 pp 65-6 1648 which, although it deals with Kilmore & Kilbride, includes this farm. See below.
Ardnaskie (2½m)?

5d

1751

1532

NM 9632 Langlands(1801) 5d(1617, 1728)

5m with Fernoch in 1751

Fearnoch (2½m)?

6d

1751

1532

NM 9632 Pont(12)

Langlands(1801)

6d(1617, 1728). 5m with Ardnaskee in 1751 although at 6d we could expect Fearnoch’s merkland valuation to be 3m.
Coille Nathais 2m

5d

1751

1532

NM 982314 Langlands(1801)

OS(1871)

Killinaise(1532)

5d(1617, 1728).

           
Total (m) 62½m        
Total (d) 133d        

 

 

Kilvaree

In OS 6″ 1st series Sheet XCIX (1871) Kilvarie is a district name applied on the east side of the Lusragan burn (c. NM 9031) and not, as on today’s Explorer map, to the west side. This is important since the Lusragan was the parish boundary and so implies that Kilvarie was a name that originally only applied within Muckairn. There is also a farm, Kilvaree, which is marked further to the east at NM 9231 both in 1871 and today. This is by the Black Lochs in which is found Eilean an t-Sagairt (the Priest’s Isle) in 1871 and also on Explorer 376. Kilvaree must be an old ecclesiastical site which included the ground between the Black Lochs (to the east) and the Lusragan burn (to the west). The writer of the entry in the NSA claimed it as a dedication to the Virgin Mary. The early spellings suggest the dedication was actually to St Maolrubha.

Watson (CPNS p 266) writes:

Ballindeoir in Muckairn, Argyll, is close to the site of the old church of Kilvarie; the relic here was called the Arwachyll, i.e. arbhachall, ‘great bachall’, ‘great staff,’ apparently supposed to be the crozier of St Maol-Rubha of Applecross.

I am just a little doubtful about this association since Kilvaree and Balindore are on opposite sides of the parish and there are other church sites closer to Balindore.

 

Lailt

Lailt is marked at NM 925327 on OS 6″ 1st series Sheet LXXXVII (1871). On the same map it is also marked further west at NM 909327. This is similar to the situation with Kilvaree. What may have happened in both cases was that the original farm-site was eastwards beside the Black Lochs. As the road between Connel and Oban became a major highway from the eighteenth century so the west end of each farm became more important. Any buildings here would also be named after the farm on whose ground they stood – which is why such names appear twice.

 

Achnacloich

It is difficult to be sure that the various markland assessments refer to the same Achnacloich. Its pennyland valuation is consistently 5d which should be equivalent to 2½m in Muckairn parish. However it is 3m in 1630, 4m in 1648 and 5m in 1751. Genealogist 34 p 70 No 33 of 1687 suggests it was £5 (7½m).

There was also an Achnanclach at NM 782186 on the island of Seil. RRS V (27) 1313 refers to Auchinaclosh (OPS II, I p 106 reads Auchinacloch) along with other properties in Kilbrandan, Kilninver and Kilmore & Kilbride. It is possible that one or more of these merkland valuations refers to a different Achnacloich which has now dropped from view. Islands included in RMS V (1228) 1584.

 

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