South Uist & St Kilda
| Name | Value | Date | Grid Ref | Map Sources | Other forms, comments etc |
| Baile Gharbhaidh | 5d | 1633 | NF 7646 | Blaeu | 10d(1684) including Lionacuidhe?, 4d(1748), 4½d(1798) |
| Lionacuidhe | 4d | 1748 | NF 7546 | 4½d(1798) | |
| Cill Amhlaidh | 5d | 1633 | NF 7545 | Blaeu | Kynlawla(1633), Kileulay(Blaeu), 4½d(1798) |
| Aird/Aird a’ Mhachair | 10d | 1633 | NF 7445 | Blaeu | 10d Aird(1748), 10d Ardimacharie(1684), 2¼d Ardwacher(1798) |
| Machrimeanoch | 11d | 1748 | c. NF 7543/7544 | Blaeu | One section worth 3d(CD II pp770-3 1625, GD201/1/92 1667 & GD128/49/3/1 1798), another worth 6d(CD III p256 1726, GD201/1/302 & 303 1792) – latter linked with Benbecula lands,
See also 1d Machermeanach in CD III p 287 of 1682 |
| Geirinis | 2½d | 1748 | NF 7641/7741 | ?Blaeu | ?Kereynish(Blaeu), 3d(1798) |
| (Loch) Cille Bhanain | 3d | 1748 | NF 7641 | Blaeu | Kiluanen(Blaeu) |
| ‘Garrieflouch’ | 3d | 1748 | S end Loch Bi | Blaeu | Gherfleuch(Blaeu), Gerrafleugh(1798) |
| Driomor | 2d | 1748 | NF 7640 | Dremore(1748), Drimore(1798) | |
| Groigearraidh | 2d | 1748 | NF 7639/7739 | Blaeu | Grogairth(Blaeu), 2d Grogary(1798) |
| Stadhlaigearraidh | 4d | 1633 | NF 7638 | Blaeu | Stylaig(Blaeu), 4d NRAS2950/1/47, Steligary(CD II p 790 1707), Donald MacVurich (poet) had 2d of in 1718(GD201/5/1257/5) |
| Dreumasdal | 13d | 1798 | NF 7637 | Blaeu | Dremisdill(Blaeu), with Baliloch in GD128/49/3/1 1798.
See below. |
| Balliemeanich | 5d | 1748 | E744/1/1 & 2(1748). See also under Giarihorinish. | ||
| Ballichiniloch | 4d | 1748 | E744/1/1 & 2(1748), Baliloch(1798)? | ||
| Ballieacheroch | 3d | 1748 | E744/1/1 & 2(1748) | ||
| Treforlin/Trifiorlin | ¾d? | 1718 | No’s 104 & 121 in 1718 rental are only source | ||
| Tobha Mor/Howmore | 2d | 1633 | NF 7636 | Blaeu | How M(Blaeu), 3d(1748), 3d double in 1798 |
| Giarihorinish | 2d | 1748 | c. NF 7636/7637 | RHP 1040 | Originally 2d?, 1d was ‘now added to Howmore'(E744/1/1 1748), RHP 1040 marks it just S of Dreumasdal, just N of Howmore.
See below. |
| Tobha Beg/Howbeg | 5d | 1633 | NF 7536 | 3d(1798) | |
| Pennymoire | 1d | 1748 | E744/1/1 & 2(1748), = part of Howbeg? | ||
| Pennywell | 1d | 1748 | E744/1/1 & 2(1748), = part of Howbeg? | ||
| ½ Pennyclachan in Howbeg | ½d | 1748 | E744/1/1 & 2(1748), = part of Howbeg | ||
| Peighinn nan Aoireann | 2d | 1748 | NF 7434 | Penniniran(E744/1/1 & 2 1748), was this also part of Howbeg in 1633? | |
| Staoinebrig | 4d | 1633 | NF 7433 | Pont(36) | NRAS2950/1/47(1633), GD201/2/9(1728) |
| Ormacleit | 4d | 1633 | NF 7431 | Pont(36) | NRAS2950/1/47(1633), 4d(1748, 1798) |
| Bornais (Lower) | 7d | 1625 | NF 7329? | Pont(36) | GD201/1/10 & CD II pp 770-3 1625, 7½d(1748) |
| Bornais (Upper) | 7½d | 1625 | NF 7429? | Pont(36) | CD II pp 770-3 1625, CD III p 259 1672, 7½d(1748, 1798) |
| Cill Donnain | 5d | 1625 | NF 7427 | Pont(36) | CD II pp 770-3 1625 |
| Totenamaekan | Pont(36) | ||||
| Gearraidh Bhailteas/
Garrivaltos |
10d | 1625 | NF 7326 | Pont(36) | 10d(CD II pp 770-3 1625, E744/1/1 & 2 1748), split into 5d Gerravaltas & 5d Millton(GD128/49/3/1 1798) |
| Frobost | 10d | 1625 | NF 7325/7425 | Pont(36) | Split into 5d N & 5d S by time of E744/1/1 & 2(1748), |
| Mingearraidh | NF 7426 | RHP 1040 | |||
| Aisgernis | 12d | 1730 | NF 7424 | GD201/2/10(1730), E744/1/1 & 2(1748).
4d in NRAS 2950/1/58 of 1666. |
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| Garryheillie | 6d | 1748 | NF 7521 | E744/1/1 & 2(1748), 6d single GD128/49/3/1 1798 | |
| Dalabrog | 8d | 1748 | NF 7521 | Pont(36) | Taleburg(Pont), E744/1/1 & 2(1748), 4d double in GD128/49/3/1 1798 |
| Cille Pheadair | 6½d | 1625 | NF 7419 | Blaeu | CD II pp770-3 1625, 16d in AS II (460) 1633 & NRAS 2950/1/58 of 1666, 8d(E744/1/1 & 2(1748), 8d(1798) |
| Boisdale | 20d | 1748 | NF 7417 | Pont(36) | E744/1/1 p 12, includes Smerclait, Kilbride, Eriskay & Lingay,
Boisdale by itself 14d E744/1/1 & 2(1748), 14d E648/1/1 but 12d only of Boisdale in NRAS2950/1/65 of 1671 |
| Cille Bhrighde/Kilbride | (1½d) | 1666 | NF 7514 | Pont(36) | (1½d?) in E648/1/1, 3d with Smeircleit(Bk of Dunvegan I p 57 1666), 3d with Smeircleit E744/1/1 & 2 (1748) |
| Smeircleit | 1½d | 1666? | NF 7415 | Pont(36) | 3d with Kilbride(Bk of Dunvegan I p 57 1666), E744/1/1 & 2 (1748), 1½d E648/1/1 |
| Eriskay | 3d | 1666 | NF 7811 etc | Blaeu | 3d NRAS 2950/1/58 of 1666 & E744/1/1 & 2 (1748), 3d E648/1/1 |
| Lingay/Lingeigh | 1748 | NF 7511 | Blaeu, RHP 3066 | Value included in one of the above within Boisdale ounceland? | |
| Total | 173½d | ||||
| St Kilda | 5d | 1678 | See below. | ||
More evidence that the conversion rate in S Uist was 1 ounceland : 6 merks can be found in the context of Boisdale. In 1495 (RMS II 2287) James IV confirms a charter of Alexander, Lord of the Isles to Gilleownan Makneill of “terras unciatas de Baegastallis in Wist” (ALI p 34, original dated 1427). There are references to 6m of Boisdale in RMS VII (344) 1610, IX (7) 1634, XI (1105) 1667 and Inverness Retours (47) of 1627. In Inverness Retours (78) of 1655 they are referred to as “the lands callit Teiromig [ie tirung] of Beagistill”. In the 1748 rental (E744/1/1 p12) the 20d of Boisdale included Smairklait, Kilbride, Eriscay & Lingay. Fraser-Mackintosh (Antiquarian Notes, 1897, pp322-3) quotes a 1758 charter which gives the same five properties as the 20 pennylands of Boisdale. Their individual valuations can be construed from other documents.
Dreumasdal
Dreumasdal is mentioned by Blaeu (Dremisdill) and as 13 (single) pennylands in 1798 but the evidence between these years is scanty. Although there is no clear total for ‘Greemstill’ in the 1718 Rental I think this is the same place and the rents in kind suggest a total of about 10½d. The 1748 rental gives us the three townships of Balliemeanich (5d), Ballichiniloch (4d) and Ballieacheroch (3d). I suspect these were the constituent parts of Dreumasdal. The references in Uist to single and double pennylands is reminiscent of the situation in Strath, Skye.
Giarihorinish
TGSI XXXVIII pp 386-8 gives a wadset of 1½d Bellemeanoch & Gerehoriness in 1654.
St Kilda
See History of the Macdonalds in Highland Papers I p 25 for tradition that Godfrey, son of John (Lord of the Isles), gave St Kilda to the Laird of Harris.
Sir Robert Moray, A description of the Island Hirta in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol 12, 1678, p 928:
“Hirta Island is … accounted Five-peny-Land. In it there are Ten Families”; and on p 929: “Their ordinary way of dividing their Land, is one Half-peny to every Family. The Rocks also are divided, such and such on every Halfpeny”.
Amongst the Macleod Archives there is a document (NRAS 2950/2/10) of 1750 which describes a tack of ‘the pennylands of St Kilda’. Unfortunately the precise number of pennylands is left blank in the original so had presumably fallen out of memory by 1750.
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