Kilmaronock Table

Kilmaronock

 

Name	Value	Date	Grid Ref	Map Sources	Other forms, comments etc
Kilmarrannok	davach?	1223			See text file ‘Davachs in Lennox?’. See below.
Catter Middle Catter Easter Catter	5m 1m	1616 1616	NS 4787	Blaeu(Lennox)   RHP10000/DU54	A Haldane property. See below.   =Drumdash. This included the Spittal.
Drumdash				Blaeu(Lennox)	Drummadash between Drymen & R Endrick in Blaeu. But properly = Easter Catter in Kilmaronock? A Haldane property.
Spittal			NS 4786	Blaeu(Lennox) Roy(GM26) RHP1587	GD119/30 1557 refers to the ‘templar lands of Spittell of Easter Catter. Ex Templars.
Ibert		1591			GD220/6/194 1591-1819 ‘near church of Kilmaronock’. GD1/755/11 refers to the Ibert of Kilmaronok. Only 1 family is listed so probably small. Timperley pp 116-117.
Bordland	£3 (4½m)	1615			See below.
Mains Farm	£3 (4½m)	1615	NS 4487	Blaeu(Lennox)	This is separate to Bordland. They sometimes appear in the same documents.
Aber	3½m	1526	c. NS 4387	Blaeu(Lennox)	£3 (1600, 1621, 1622, 1655, 1662)
Aber Isle			NS 4188/4288	Pont 17 Blaeu(Lennox)
Gartocharn	40s (3m)	1621	NS 4386	Blaeu(Lennox)
Duncryne	40s (3m)	1545	NS 4385/4386	Blaeu(Lennox)	Dumbarton Retours (64) 1666 refers to 6s 8d Duncryne. See below.
Gartinbantrick	1m	1526	NS 4486	Blaeu(Lennox)? Roy(GM19)	Gartna Baroiget (Blaeu). Garpantre in RMS III (398) 1526. 7s Gartpantre  in RMS III (3208) 1545-6.
Finnery Wester Easter	40s+? 15s (1⅛m) 15s (1⅛m)	1615 1615	NS 4484/4485	Blaeu(Lennox)	10s Fynre (RMS III (398) 1526). Possibly Southsonne & Northswnne in teinds list of 1528. 30s Estir Fynare (RMS III (3208) 1545-6); 40s Eister Finnarie in Dumbarton Retours (103) 1592
Drumglas	1m	1702	NS 4585	OS(1860)	1m Drumglasse & Badmucke in Laing Charters (2999) 1702. Drumglass in OS 6″ 1st Series, Dumbartonshire Sheet XIV, 1860.
Caldarvan	40s (3m)	1615	NS 4384	Blaeu(Lennox)
Cambusmoon	40s (3m)	1615	NS 4285/4385	Blaeu(Lennox)	Cambusmone (1526), 1m (RMS III (398) 1526); 30s (RMS III (3208) 1545-6)
Blairlusk	5m	1629	NS 4184	Blaeu(Lennox)	A Haldane property. Guthrie Smith, Strathendrick, p 350. 8m with Blairnyle in GD430/60 1518.
Tullochan	Quarterland £5?		NS 4185	Blaeu(Lennox) Roy(GM19)	See Cartularium de Levenax below. See also under Portnellan since it may have been included in the £5 Portnellan-Galbraith.
Ardoch	Quarterland £5 (7½m)	1545	NS 4186	Blaeu(Lennox)	See Cartularium de Levenax below. Also known as Ardoch-Campbell. Subdivided into 50s units and then further subdivided into units of 21s & 29s.
Ross	40s (3m)	1641	NS 4187	Blaeu(Lennox) RHP 30936
Portnellan Portnellan-Galbraith Portnellan-Halyday	Quarterland £5 (7½m) £5 (7½m)	1545 1545	NS 4086	Blaeu(Lennox)	Mickle Portnell = Portnellan-Galbraith. See below. RMS IV (1818) 1568 & Dumbarton Retours (15) 1613 imply that Tullochan was included in the £5 Portnellan-Galbraith. Portnellan-Halyday was divided into two 50s units.
Creinch			NS 3988	Blaeu(Lennox)	Island in Loch Lomond.
Knockour	5m	1518	NS 3885	Blaeu(Lennox)	The spelling in Cartularium de Levenax pp 55-56 (below) suggests this was originally Knokgowr (Cnoc or hillock of the goats). Knockgour in 1518. A Haldane property. Included a fishing croft.
Boturich	5m	1675	NS 3884	Blaeu(Lennox)	Haldane property. RMS II (2436) 1498 states 2 ‘le Boturchis’. 5m Great Botturich so perhaps only half? GD47/267 1719 refers to Auchinmore as part of Meikell Balturich.
Spittal of Batturich		1719			GD47/267 1719 refers to ‘Spittell of Balturich’. GD47/270 1723 refers to Spittall of Batturich. GD47/272 1734. GD47/335 1770-1828
Ledrishmore Ledrishbeg	3m	1662	NS 4083 NS 3982	Blaeu(Lennox) Roy(GM19)	Both Haldane properties. Ledrishbeg was lost to Bonhill parish in 1643.
Shanacles	davach? 40s (3m)	1223 1572	NS 4084	Blaeu(Lennox)	See text file ‘Davachs in Lennox?’. Haldane property. See below.
Blairnyle	40s (3m)	1663-4	NS 4183	Blaeu(Lennox)	Haldane property. 2 separate 20s properties in AS II (1088) 1663 & (1179) 1664. 8m with Blairlusk in GD430/60 1518.
Spittal			NS 427831	Roy(GM19) OS(1860)	OS 6″ 1st Series, Dumbartonshire Sheet XVIII, 1860.
(Easter) Blairquhannan	20s (1½m)	1526	NS 4283	Roy(GM19) Ross(1777)	Probably half. See Barquhannane following.
Barquhannane	40s (3m)	1615			I suspect this is the same as Blairquhannan. 40s in 1629, 1630, 1636, 1655, 1662.
Blairquhomrie	£3 (4½m)	1615	NS 4282	Blaeu(Lennox)
Spittle			c. NS 4382	Roy(GM19)	Just E of Blairwhamry in Roy and SE of Spittle which is E of Blairwhannan. (So two different Spittles close to each other).
The Merkins	4m	1615	NS 4382/4482	Blaeu(Lennox) Ross(1777)	Merkinsch(1629). GD39/1/232 (after 1631) gives 20m Markinch as part of the barony of Kilmaronock. AS II (1199) 1665 implies that Merkinsh was a separate barony to Kilmaronock.
Gallangad	£5 (7½m)	1545	NS 4483	Blaeu(Lennox) RHP 3886	RMS II (1901) 1489 lists Culcrewchis, Culyownane, Tundarrach (all Fintry) & Calyegat (=Gallangad). 5m(1625, 1655, 1662, 1680).
Spitall		1683			GD22/3/72 1683 refers to Nethertoun of Gallingad with the Spitall thereof.
Balloch	15m				Lost to Bonhill parish in 1643.
Milton					Lost to Bonhill parish in 1643.
Blairquhois (or Westerton)	5m				Lost to Bonhill parish in 1643.
Ballagan	3m				Lost to Bonhill parish in 1643.
Total	101m 127m				Post 1643 Pre 1643

 

There is a very useful account of the teinds due in 1528 in the Register of Cambuskenneth pp 218-222 No 158, (see accompanying table). This allows us to see the constituent farms of Kilmaronock parish in 1528 and compare their teinds against their nominal value.

 

Kilmarrannok

If Kilmaronock was the name of a davach (or carucate or arachor?) in 1223 then it may have been a £20 (30m) land. On the assumption that it was physically compact and based around Kilmaronock Castle what farms might it have included? The most likely components are Mains (£3), Bordland (£3) and Aber (3½ or 4½m). In the documents Gartocharn (3m) and Duncryne (3m) are often linked. This takes us to a maximum of £13 or 19½m.

 

Catter

Catter was an important property. In RMS II (2436) 1498 it appears as 3 ‘le Kateris’ (i.e. the 3 Catters). Cattirs in Blaeu. Moot Hill (OPS I p 35). Easter Catter alias ‘Drumdasche’ (GD47/279 1616) or ‘Drumdash’ (GD198/101-2 1670-1671).

GD47/17 1518-19 and GD47/38 1599 refer to the ‘Baicland’ of Catter.

 

Bordland

Fraser, Chiefs of Colquhoun and their Country, II, pp 337-8, No 70, 1534, refers to half of Borland extending ‘yearly’ to 2½m OE. This is another example of the conflation of Extent and render.

 

Duncryne

I do not think this has anything to do with the Paisley Abbey property that bears a similar name. It paid its teinds to Cambuskenneth in 1528 and in the documents we are not given a sense that it is ex-Paisley.

 

Portnellan, Ardoch & Tullochan

Cartularium de Levenax pp 55-56, Donald earl of Lennox granted to Gilbert Oliphant:

tres quartarias terre in comitatu nostro de Levenax que vocantur Porthnelane, videlicet, magnam quartariam de Porthnelane que jacet inter Knokgowr et Rossvue, una cum Ardach et Tulchane

(three quarterlands in our earldom of Lennox called Porthnelane [Portnellan], that is, the big quarterland of Porthnelane [Portnellan] which lies between Knokgowr [Knockour] and Rossvue [Ross], along with Ardach [Ardoch] and Tulchane [Tullochan]).

Portnellan (NS 4086) does indeed lie between Knockour (NS 3885) and Ross (NS 4187). Ardoch (NS 4186) and Tullochan (NS 4185) lie just inland. These farms will have been physically contiguous.

Robertson’s Index p 33 No 39 (David II) mentions a charter to William Galbraith which included ‘Portmelen in Dumbartan’. GD47/130 1705 says Wester Portnellan is Portnellan Galbraith. AS II (760) 1648 links Easter Portnellan with the island of Creinsch [Creinch] in Loch Lomond.

 

Our later land-assessment data gives Portnellan-Galbraith as £5 in 1545, Portnellan-Halyday as £5 in 1545 and Ardoch as £5 in 1545. I have no valuation for Tullochan. (RMS IV (1818) 1568 & Dumbarton Retours (15) 1613 imply that Tullochan was included in the £5 Portnellan-Galbraith). AS II (742) 1646 shows Mickle Portnell was Portnell Galbraith.

 

If we allow for a little rejigging of names it seems clear that we have three quarterlands here, later valued at £5 each. Originally they were Portnellan, Ardoch and Tullochan. Portnellan is given as magnam quartariam or the big quarterland which probably means this is a Latinised version of a Gaelic name such as Portnellan More. Over the centuries Tullochan seems to have been absorbed into Portnellan More (or Mickle Portnellan or Portnellan-Galbraith). Ardoch remained intact but a new farm seems to have emerged taking the name Portnellan-Halyday. (Since the second element of this name is from English it makes sense to see this as a later development).

 

Shanacles

If Shanacles was the name of a davach (or carucate or arachor?) in 1223 then it may have been a £20 (30m) land. Another early reference is ‘Seueglass’ in Paisley Register pp 213-4 for 1228 (see also p 212). The context suggests Shanacles then extended up to the River Leven so presumably westerly properties were divided from it in later centuries. However Balloch was also the name of a davach in 1223 so disentangling the components of Shanacles from those of Balloch could prove complex. Of course it might be the case that they were not then physically compact. If the final element of the name is for ‘-eccles’ or ‘-eglis’ it may have been a significant early church site.