Sunart

Sunart

 

Name Value Date Grid Ref Map Sources Other forms, comments etc
Ranachan Mor 2½m

5d

1651

1723

NM 7961 Bruce

RHP 11627

5d(1765), 3½d(1748, 1757), 3d(1751), to east of Sron Ranachan
Sron Ranachan 2½m

5d

1651

1723

NM 7761 RHP 11627 5d(1765), 3d(1748, 1757). With Camusean as 6d in 1751.
‘Cammussane’ 2½m

5d

1541

1723

NM 7561 Bruce, Langlands

RHP 11627

Camusean(1651). With Rannachanastrone as 6d in 1751.

5d Cammiseen & Auchinellan(1765). 3d(1748, 1757).

Resipole 3m

6d

1541

1723

NM 7264 Bruce 3m Reischepoll or 2m Reischepoill(1541), but usually 3m. 10m Reseboll(1595) but this probably included another farm.

6d Reshipole and Clashie(1765), 5d(1748, 1751)

Claish (Moss)     NM 7168/7268   With Reshipole as 6d(1765). See also under Ardnamurchan.
Tarbert 1m

3d

1541

1723

NM 6863 Bruce, Roy 2d(1765).

See also under Ardnamurchan.

Camastorsa ¾m 1541 NM 6762 Roy ¾m including Camasinas. See also under Ardnamurchan.
Camasinas  

1½d

1541

1765

NM 6561 Bruce, Roy ¾m with Camastorsa. See also under Ardnamurchan.

1½d Cames:Innes & Camestowsay (GD 112/2/93/4 of 1765).

Polloch 2½m

5d

1541

1723

NM 7968 Bruce  

5d((1748, 1751, 1765)

Ranaldmoir? 2½m 1541     See below.
Ardnastang 2½m

5d

1541

1723

NM 8061   5d(1765), 1d(1748). 3½d with Anaheilt in 1751.
Anaheilt 2½m

5d

1541

1723

NM 8162 Bruce 2½d(1748), 3½d with Ardnastaing in 1751. 5d(1765)
Ariundle 2½m

5d

1541

1723

NM 8264 Bruce 5d(1748, 1751, 1765).
Drumnatorra 2½m

5d

1541

1723

NM 8262 Bruce, Langlands Coulnyntoran(1651), 2d(1748), 5d(1765).

With Torbane as 5d in 1751.

‘Torbane’ 3d 1748     Torbaan(1723), with Drumnatorran as 5d(1751), = Glen Tarbert?
Strontian 2½m

5d

1541

1723

NM 8161 Bruce 3d(1748, 1751), 5d(1765).
Achnalea 2½m

5d

1541

1723

NM 8561 Bruce With Carnuch as 6d in 1751. 5d(1748, 1765).
Carnoch 1d 1748 NM 8460 Bruce, Langlands

RHP 11627

Bruce(1733) shows this as part of Sunart although S of river. Boundary with Morvern was presumably watershed to S.

6d with Achanalia in 1751.

Achnanellan 1m

5d

1625

1748

NM 7467 Bruce 5d(1748, 1751) but lack of early references except 1m Auchnellan (CD II pp 773-7, part of tack to parson of Eilean Fhianain, 1625). With Cammiseen as 5d in 1765. See ‘Cammussane’ above.
Gorstanvorran 1½d 1748 NM 8071 Bruce 1½d(1748), part of Lettirlochshiel. See below.
Scamodale 1d 1748 NM 8373 Langlands Scammudill(1748), Scamadal(1801), part of Lettirlochshiel.

See below.

Glaschoirean ½d 1748 NM 8676 Bruce, Langlands Part of Lettirlochshiel. See below.
(Loch) Doilet ½m 1656 NM 7967/7968   Douleitt(1656), 1d Duillad(1748), 1d Duilet(1757), to W of loch?
Kinlochan 1d 1748 NM 8167   To E of Loch Doilet.
‘Taingavalacan’ 1d 1748   Roy(PC 60) ‘Tengovalligan'(Roy), above Strontian, NW of ‘New York’
Glenhurich 7d 1748 NM 8368 Bruce Braes of Glenahuirich(1748), 9d Glenaheurich(1751)
Ballnaselich     NM 7967   =Daalnasheillach(1723), =a pendicle? =(Loch) Doilet?
Doire an Daimh (1d)? 1723 NM 7067 RHP 3305 Derrydaff(1723)
Total (m) 29¾       Should be 30m.
Total (d) 62       Should be 60d but I am using valuations from several sources.

 

‘Ranaldmoir’

There is difficulty with ‘Ranaldmoir’ and the two Ranachans. Two documents (ER XVII p 625 & 649, 1541; RMS VII (272) 1610) list a place called Ranaldmoir worth 2½m. Both of them also list the two Ranachans together as worth 2½m. They do not differentiate, as do the other sources, between a Ranachanmore and a Ranachanstrone (each worth 2½m). To compound the confusion there is actually a Ruighe Raonaill at NM 8365. However the weight of the evidence is that ‘Ranaldmoir’ is really Ranachan Mor and that our earliest source – ER XVII of 1541 – is wrong, as is RMS VII (272) which seems to have followed it.

 

Gorstanvorran, Scamodale & Glaschoirean (Lettirlochshiel)

In the Argyll Valuation Roll (1751) there is reference to the 3d of ‘Lettir Comprehending Gortenvory, Scammadill and Glashvoren’. The same three properties are grouped together in Murray(1723). Fraser-Mackintosh (Antiquarian Notes, 1897, p 225) quotes a deed of 1757 which refers to ‘the three penny lands of old extent of the lands of Letterlochsheill’. I think we have here the ‘Lettirlochetle’ of the fourteenth century.  In the table dealing with Ardnamurchan I have suggested some adjustment of boundaries took place. This 3d unit moved from Sunart to Ardnamurchan and back again.

 

Doire an Daimh

Derrydaff follows Achnanellan in Murray’s table(1723). No valuation is given but the rent and stock columns suggest it was a 1d unit which would also take Murray’s overall total from 59d to 60d.

 

There is an ‘Arddalie’ worth 1m in 1625 (CD II pp 773-7, part of tack to parson of Eilean Fhianain) which is probably in the vicinity of the island (either Moidart or Sunart) but which I have not yet located.

 

The Alexander Bruce who drew the maps in 1733 is different to the David Bruce who drew up the rental in 1748.

 

Roy’s map (Protracted Copy Sheet 60) marks Water of ‘Egadale’ by Strontian making it possible this was an earlier name. It appears as River Aigadale in RHP 11627.

 

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