Kilninver
Principal Sources
RMS I App 1 (107) 1306-29
RMS II (3075) 1506-7
RMS VI (891) 1599, (1377) 1602
RRS V (27) 1313
APS VII p 339 c. 1647
DR 6/62A 1592 (Argyll & Bute Archives, Lochgilphead)
DR 6/67 1650 (Argyll & Bute Archives, Lochgilphead)
DR 6/71 1657 (Argyll & Bute Archives, Lochgilphead)
DR 6/73 1659 (Argyll & Bute Archives, Lochgilphead)
DR 6/74 1658 (Argyll & Bute Archives, Lochgilphead)
DR 6/75 1660 (Argyll & Bute Archives, Lochgilphead)
DR 6/83 1660 (Argyll & Bute Archives, Lochgilphead)
DR 6/84 1657 (Argyll & Bute Archives, Lochgilphead)
GD 1/426/1/3/1 1626
GD 112/1/7 1448-9
GD 112/2/9/1/1 1596-7
GD 112/2/9/1/2 1596
GD 112/2/9/2 1608
GD 112/2/9/5,6,7 & 8 1618
GD 112/2/9/9 & 11 1621
GD 112/2/9/13 1623
GD 112/2/9/20 1654
GD 112/2/9/27 1685
GD 112/2/9/28 1685
GD 112/2/9/31 1741
GD 112/2/25 1655
GD 112/2/36/1 1572
GD 112/2/36/2 1588
GD 112/2/36/4 1614
GD 112/2/107 1470
GD 112/2/116/6 1570
GD 112/2/116/11 1571
GD 112/2/134 1656
GD 112/3/5 1470
AS I (39) 1618, (82) 1619, (95) 1620, (155, 158) 1621, (194) 1622, (300, 308, 313) 1649, (326-7) 1650, (343) 1651, (358) 1652, (374-5, 376-80) 1658, (426-8) 1659, (430, 437) 1660
AS II (23) 1618, (53, 77, 79-80) 1619, (155, 159, 167) 1623, (237, 244, 247, 250) 1628, (265, 269) 1629, (324) 1630, (528) 1634, (569) 1636, (628) 1638, (669) 1641, (695-6) 1642, (892-4, 896-7, 907) 1655, (924) 1656, (941, 964) 1657, (973-4) 1658, (1101, 1108) 1663, (1373-4, 1378) 1667, (1407, 1409) 1668, (1507) 1669
Argyll Retours (18, 19) 1617, (57) 1636
RHP 720 A Langlands
RHP 964/4
RHP 972/5 Robertson’s report, 1796
RHP 30399/1
RHP 30407
RHP 35991 1873
NAS CS 46/1913/May No 6 pp 344-6 1669
Misc SHS IV pp 276-7 No 66 1631
Miscellany of the Spalding Club, Vol 5, Aberdeen, 1852
W Fraser, The Stirlings of Keir and their papers, Edinburgh, 1858
The 1751 Argyll Valuation Roll gives 97½m for Kilninver. Smith’s table gives 137m for Kilninver and Kilmelfort. Since the latter was about 40m we can deduce 97m for Kilninver. I find 111m although there are one or two difficulties. My total for the lands of Brae Lorne (supposedly 18m) is actually 18¾ or 19m. I also think Auchnasaul may have been more than 4m. Some early farms such as Peinfuar, Garpyne and Pennylochan were divided amongst other farms in later years and I am not sure that their values were always retained.
There is little direct evidence of the pennyland to markland conversion ratio but, on the basis of the evidence from Barnacarry, Garpyne and the various farms of Brae Lorne, I think it was probably 1d : 2m. This would then be the same as the ratio in Kilmore and Kilbride.
If this is the case then Kilninver was probably notionally 120m or 60d or three ouncelands. I am also inclined to think it once included Musdale and Grianaig which are listed under Kilmore and Kilbride in 1751. Their position in the Loch Scammadale drainage-basin suggests Kilninver was their natural home.
Although I am not sure of its precise components Glen Euchar is specified as a 22m unit and Brae Lorne was an 18m unit. If we add these together we arrive at a compact 40m or 20d unit which may represent the southernmost ounceland of Kilninver parish. It is also worth noting that both Laggan and Bragleen would have been 5d or quarterland units whilst Kilninver, the parish church, was a 2d unit. Kilveran is possibly a lost ecclesiastical unit of 1d which makes a total of 3d of church lands between three ouncelands.
I visited Lagganmore Farm in October 2019. My 3rd great grandmother, Sarah Livingstone, was born in 1801 on the farm. I was surprised by the cottages behind the manor house. I talked to a lady waiting for the school bus to bring her children and she did not any history of the farm. Further research has found that it was the location of the “Barn of Bones” massacre during the War of the Three Kingdoms during the English Civil War.