Kilmore and Kilbride
Principal Sources
RMS I App1 (107)
RMS I App 2 Index A (351)
RMS I App 2 Index A (659)
RMS II (3075) 1506-7, (3136) 1507
RMS V (1818) 1590-1
RMS VII (587) 1607
RRS V (258) 1324, (393) ?1321-1322
GD 1/426/1/23/31 1558
GD 1/426/1/23/89 1564
GD 112/2/107 1470
GD 112/2//9/1/1 1596-7
GD 112/2/40/1/5 1510
GD 112/2/93/1 1728
GD 112/3/5 1470
GD 202/18 pp 64-6 1648
GD 437 No 53 1676
Argyll Retours (18) 1617
APS VII pp 339-40 c. 1647
Acts of the Lords of Council p 16 1478
Historical Manuscripts Commission IV p 474 No 16 1590
HP IV pp 17-18, 99, 195
AS I (1) 1617, (119) 1620, (148, 166, 175) 1621, (197) 1622, (249, 252) 1643, (290) 1648, (363) 1652, (366) 1658, (401) 1659, (435, 438-9, 448-9) 1660, (601) 1675
AS II (39-40, 44, 68) 1619, (118) 1621, (139) 1622, (232) 1627, (234, 237, 252) 1628, (295) 1629, (301) 1629, (314, 353) 1630, (448, 472) 1633, (554) 1635, (569, 579) 1636, (595) 1637, (633) 1638, (657) 1639, (672) 1641, (895, 897-9) 1655, (929-30) 1656, (1121-2, 1132) 1664, (1327, 1354, 1364, 1375, 1377, 1379-80) 1667, (1405, 1408) 1668, (1504) 1669,
NAS CS 46/1913/May No 6 pp 81-109 1502-1667
NAS CS 46/1913/May No 6 pp 206-7 1632
NAS CS 46/1913/May No 6 pp 333-4 1667
Macfarlane’s Geographical Collections II pp 151 & 514
JRN MacPhail, Dunstaffnage Castle, SHR XVII, 1920
W Douglas Simpson, Dunstaffnage Castle, Edinburgh, 1958
J Bannerman, The Beatons, Edinburgh, 1998
The 1751 Argyll Valuation Roll gives 158½m for Kilmore & Kilbride (excluding Kerrera). The table in Smith’s Statistical Survey gives 184m though this will have included Kerrera at 30m. I find 223m (excluding Kerrera) which is significantly more. It is difficult to be sure of the pennyland to merkland ratio because pennyland valuations tend to be earlier and are often difficult to match with the later merkland values. However we have a number of farms (Glencrutten, Ardoran, Barmolloch) where it seems pretty clear that 1d became 2 merklands and I shall accept this as the going rate across both parishes. One ounceland or 20d was converted into 40m.
Of the two parishes Kilbride was much the more valuable and contained 165m. This was the equivalent of 82½d or 4⅛ ouncelands which suggests an original valuation of 4½ ouncelands. Kilmore only contains 58m of which up to 5m (Musdale, Grianaig & Midmuir) may be later additions to the parish. The original value for Kilmore may well have been 60m or 30d or 1½ ouncelands. On this basis the combined parish probably amounted to 6 ouncelands or 240 merks.
It is striking how many of the farms in this parish, (Kilbride in particular), faithfully reflect their earlier forms. Many of them have merkland valuations that are multiples of 2 which suggests that they still represent the old pennyland valuations of 1d, 2d, 3d, 4d etc – even 6d & 8d in the cases of Soroba and Lerags.
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