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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