Glengarry

Glengarry

 

Name	Value	Date	Grid Ref	Map Sources	Other forms, comments etc
Achadrom etc					See below.
Carna/Cama	1½m	1760			Carna(GD44/25/29/2/5 1760 with Glasterbeg – as also in 1762) = Cam Bhealach? NN 2493?
Ceann Loch	1½m	1760	NN 2895		Kinloch(GD44/25/29/2/5 1760 with Easter Glaster – also in 1762)
Glas-Dhoire			NN 2593		= Easter Glaster? see below.
Kilfinnan	3m	1540	NN 2795		3m Killenane(1540), 2m Kilenan(1760)
Cullinross	10s	1607	c. NN 280949	Thomson(1830) RHP 1300(1840)	10s=½?(GD44/1/1/9/9/1 1607 & Inverness Retours(106) 1684)? 1m Culross(GD44/25/29/2/5 1760), 1m(1762) OPS map NE corner Loch Lochy. See below.
Laggan	5m	1540	NN 2997	Blaeu Gordon(5)	Early references are to Laggan Achdrom 4m(1760, 1762)
Pitmaglaster	10s	1607	NN 2896	Thomson(1830)	10s=½?(GD44/1/1/9/9/1 1607 & Inverness Retours(106) 1684)? 1m(GD44/25/29/2/5 1760), 1m(1762), now = Balmaglaster. See below.
Shian	3m	1607	NN 2996/3095	Thomson(1830)	3m=½?(GD44/1/1/9/9/1 1607 & Inverness Retours(106) 1684)? See below.
Leitirfearn	13s 4d	1627	NN 3299 to NH 3201	Blaeu Gordon(5)	E side Loch Oich. 13s 4d (GD44/1/1/9/9/4 of 1627 & GD44/1/1/9/9/5 of 1653 – in both of which it is linked to Glen Turret Beg by Glen Roy).
Invergarry	4m	1540	NH 3100	Blaeu Gordon(5)	4m(1760, 1762)
Mandally			NH 2900		Part of 4m Invergarry in 1762 rental
Polnonochan			NH 2800		Part of 4m Invergarry in 1762 rental
Sub-total	20½m
‘Sliosgarbh’	£6 (9m)	1536			Or £10(15m) in 1648? See also below.
Gleann Laogh/Glenluie	1½m	1760	NH 2700		Possibly 1m in GD44/1/1/9/9/1 1607
Bolinn	1m	1760	NH 2501/2601		1m Boyilley? in GD44/1/1/9/9/1 1607, 1m(1760, 1762)
Laddie	1m	1607	NH 2301	Blaeu	1m(1760, 1762)
South Ardachy	1½m	1607	NH 2100		1m(1760, 1762)
Achadh Uaine or Greenfield	2m	1607	NH 2000	Blaeu	2m(1760)
Garrygualach	2m?	1607	NH 1700		1m Easter Gargulloch(1760), 1m Garrigoulach(1762) Two Groballochies extending to 2m(GD44/1/1/9/9/1 1607)
Ballachan	1m	1607	c. NN 1198	Roy(PC) 72
Bad an t-Seobhaig/ Badenjoig	1m	1760	NN 1299/1399	Roy(PC) 72	1m(1760, 1762), cf Macmillan: Bygone Lochaber pp 89-90
Sub-total	11m
‘Sleismene’	20d	1538			See below.
Invervigar			NH 3305	Blaeu
Drynachan	1½m	1760	NH 3202	Blaeu	Appears as ‘Lephein & Drinachan’ in Thomson’s map of 1830.
Faichem	5m 4m	c. 1631 1760	NH 2801	Roy(PC) 72	See below. Usually divided into ‘ard’ and ‘iosal’ (high and low), 2m each.
Lundie	2m	1760	NH 2903/2904	Blaeu, Gordon(5)
Delchumie		1768			Pendicle of Lundie in NLS MS1313 1768, = Dail a’ Chuirn (NH 3105)?
Allt leth-bheinne	(½d)		NH 3202	Thomson(1830)	Ault Lephein(Thomson)
Munerigie	2m	1760	NH 2602	Blaeu, Roy(PC)72	Manerach(Roy), Mondrew(1760), Moneregie(1762)
Achadh-Luachrach	2m	1760	NH 2503	Blaeu, Roy(PC)72	2m(1760, 1762)
Daingean	2m	1760	NH 2303		2m(1760, 1762)
Ardochy	1½m	1760	NH 2002/2102	Blaeu, Roy(PC)72
Ardnabie	1m	1760	c. NH 2002	Roy(PC)72
Inchlaggan	2m	1760	NH 1701/1801	Roy(PC)72
(Leac) Doire Lochaidh	½m	1760	NH 0602	Thomson(1830)
Leac na Fearna		1760	NG 9701		No value given in 1760
Glen Quoich		1760	NH 0206		Sheilings but no value given in 1760.
Sub-total	19½m
Total Glengarry	51m

 

Achadrom

Achadrom (field of the ridge) is the name given to the low-lying land between Loch Lochy and Loch Oich. That it was a name known far and wide is shown by the notes in Macfarlane’s Geographical Collections vol II p 169 which probably derive from Timothy Pont’s work in the 1580s and 1590s:

And it is alleadgit be ancient men that this Achadron is the midst of Scotland in lenth. And there is one stone in a plaine ground in the stray which stands. and it is called the stone of the Ridge of Scotland And so the strath is named the mid part of Scotland. The sea doeth flow Northeast throwgh this strath and southwest.

Sir Arthur Mitchell (the editor) adds a footnote from the MS:

Achadron is the country betwixt Lochoich and Lochlohy there is a litle burn fra the hill syde that divides, one branch runs to the Westsea into Lochlohy and the other branch runs to the Eastsea through Lochoich.

 

p 523 offers a similar summary:

Ther is a little Strath betwixt the head of Loch-Lochy, and another small fresche water Loch called Loch-Eawich [Loch Oich], this strath is scarce one myl of length and not the eicht part of a myl in breadth, it is call’d Achadrome supposed be the people therabout to be the middle part of Scotland be the length. there is a stone in a playne in this Strath, cal’d the stone of the rigg of Scotland

 

These quotations make clear the significance of Achadrom to early geographers. It was a defining point for watersheds.

 

By extension the name Achadrom came to include properties along the banks of Loch Lochy and, at one time or another, all the following were said to be ‘in Achadrom’: Carna or Cama, Glasterbeg, Kinloch & Easter Glaster, Kilfinnan, Cullinross, Laggan, Pitmaglaster (now Balmaglaster) and Shian.

 

Cullinross, Pitmaglaster and Shian

Cullinross, Pitmaglaster and Shian were reckoned as part of 40m Dochanassie in 1600. Shian was probably rated at 3m, the others at 1m each.

 

Sliosgarbh & Sleismene

Slios = side, garbh = rough, min = smooth. Slios + garbh = the rough side; Slios + min = the smooth side. The Sliosgarbh was the side south of Loch Garry, rough perhaps because the hills were higher. The same two names apply to the sides of Loch Beoraid, south of Loch Morar.

 

The pennyland assessment survived in place-names until 1830. Thomson’s map has ‘Ault Lephein’ instead of what is now Allt Leth-bheinne and nearby he marks ‘Lephein & Drinachan’.

 

Glas Dhoire Mor was further down the West bank of Loch Lochy (NN 2391) and part of the Lochiel estate. Glas Dhoire Beag (NN 2492) was within the Glengarry estate and is marked SW of the present Glas Dhoire (NN 2593). Perhaps this long stretch of the western bank of Loch Lochy was divided in two even within the Glengarry estate; Glasterbeg being the SW section and Easter Glaster being the present Glas Dhoire.

 

Faichem

Fraser-Mackintosh refers to a charter from Glengarry to Lundie presumably c. 1631. The phrase he gives is ‘the half of Davoch of Faichaam, extending to 5 merks of land’. I am not sure if Faichem should be regarded as originally a half-davach or a whole davach. If the latter then it probably included one or more of its neighbouring settlements.