Sunart

Sunart

‘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.