Trotternish Summary

Trotternish

 

Principal Sources

 

RMS II (2420, 2424) 1498

RMS VI (453) 1596, (536) 1596-7, (1984) 1607

RMS VII (298, 341) 1610, (1628) 1617

RMS IX (654) 1637, (2150) 1649

RMS X (297) 1654, (646) 1658

RMS XI (902) 1666

RSS I (675) 1501, (1532) 1507, (1654) 1508

RSS II (4995) 1542

 

Inverness Retours (9) 1585, (50) 1630, (53) 1633, (68) 1644, (88) 1662, (109) 1688

APS IV p 163 1598

E656/1 1718

E656/2/2 <=1716

GD 221 Macdonald of Sleat Papers. Originals in Museum of the Isles, Armadale.

1733 Rental of the Macdonald Estates, Typescript copy (Museum of the Isles)

Stobie’s maps of the Macdonald Estates in Skye (Museum of the Isles)

 

GD305/1/108/320 1647

 

RHP 43759 Plan of the estate of Unginikille, 1814

 

Trotternish is consistently described as 80m. We know that an ounceland or tirung was worth 4m in Skye so 80m would equal 20 ouncelands. The evidence for Kilbaxter, which was a church property, also proves that there were 20 pennylands to an ounceland in Trotternish. We would therefore expect to find 400 pennylands in total. I find c. 388d – c. 395d but one or two places have eluded me.

 

Two ouncelands were formerly associated with the bailliary and once held by the Macleods of Lewis – see RMS II (2420 & 2424) of 1498. Another ounceland and a half are described in RSS I (1654) of 1508. I think the two ouncelands described in RSS I (1532) of 1507 may, in fact, be Raasay.

 

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