Assynt
For this table I have changed the normal layout. From 1774 we have John Home’s Survey of Assynt – whose farms I have listed in the leftmost column. In OSA Vol 16 No 8 and OPS II, II p 696 we find another listing – this time organised by davach, which I have given in the second column. Although we currently lack individual valuations it may, in time, be possible to work these out from other evidence such as rentals.
Blaeu(ES) = the Gordon/Blaeu map ‘Extima Scotiae’.
Under Map Sources, an entry such as H1 means Farm No 1 on the Map of John Homes’s Survey published by the Scottish History Society in 1960.
313/3585/ + number: refers to the plans visible on the NLS Digital Map Library. (See text file for detail).
Name (1774) | Name (1793) | Value | Date | Grid Ref | Map Sources | Other forms, comments etc |
Edraisk | 1 davach | 1793 | 1 davach = 8 oxgates | |||
Inverkirkaig | Inverkirkag | ¼ land | 1640 | NC 0719 | Blaeu(ES)
H27 313/3585/13 |
GD305/1/85/84 1640. GD305/1/98/226 1640. GD305/1/87/107 1642.
North side of river in Blaeu(ES). With Badnaban in 1774. |
Badnaban | Baddynaban | NC 0721 | H27 | With Inverkirkaig in 1774 | ||
Cnocnaneach | Knocknannach | NC 1021 | H13
313/3585/13 |
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Culag | Culag | NC 0821 | H15
313/3585/13 |
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Filin | Filin-wintering | NC 0922 | H23
313/3585/12 |
With Druim Suardalain as oxgate in 1640. | ||
Druim Suardalain | Drumswordland | ⅛ land | 1640 | NC 1222 | H18
313/3585/12 |
Oxgate with Fuillin in GD305/1/85/84 1640. Oxgate with Fenline in
GD305/1/98/226 1640. GD305/1/87/107 1642. |
Dubh Chlais | Duchlash | ⅛ land | 1640 | NC 1222 | H20
313/3585/12 |
With Achmelvich as oxgate in GD305/1/98/226 1640.
GD305/1/87/107 1642. |
Rowstore | 1 davach | 1793 | 1 davach = 8 oxgates | |||
Achmelvich | NC 0524 | H1
313/3585/3 |
See under Dubh Chlais above. | |||
Baddidarach | Baddydarroch | NC 0822/0823 | H7
313/3585/4 |
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Lochinver | Inver | NC 0922 | H26
Acc.10225/257 |
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Brackloch | Brackloch | NC 1123 | H9
313/3585/4 |
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Bad a’ Ghrianain | Baddygrinan-wintering | NC 0925 | H6
313/3585/4 |
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Torbreck | Torbreck-wintering | ⅛ davach | 1642 | NC 0824 | H40
313/3585/4 |
GD305/1/87/107 1642. |
Achonaloich | Is this Achmelvich? | |||||
Clachtoll | Clacktoll | NC 0427 | H10
313/3585/3 |
Broch. OPS II, II p 696 | ||
Stoer | Store | NC 0328 | H38
313/3585/3 |
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Balchladich | Ballachladach | NC 0330 | H8
313/3585/2 |
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Clashmore | Clashmore | NC 0331 | H11
313/3585/2 Acc.10225/251 Acc.10225/252 |
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Achnacarnin | Achnacarnan & Dureland | NC 0432 | H3
313/3585/2 |
Dearlan (Home’s Survey p 72) = Dureland. = Dubharlainn | ||
Dubharlainn | NC 1228/1229 | = Dureland. 10m of – SHS I p 52. | ||||
Culkein | Culkinachnakarnan | NC 0333 | H16
313/3585/2 |
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Slish-a-Chilish | 1 davach | 1793 | 1 davach = 8 oxgates | |||
Clashnessie | Clashnessy | NC 0530 | H12
313/3585/2 |
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Oldany | Oldeny | NC 0932/1032 | H36
313/3585/1 |
See below. | ||
Culkein Drumbeg | Culkin-Drumbaig | NC 1133 | H17
313/3585/5 |
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Drumbeg | Drumbaig | ¼ davach | 1642 | NC 1232 | H19 | GD305/1/87/107 1642. |
Nedd | Nedd | NC 1331 | H35
313/3585/5 |
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Glenleraig | Glenleag | NC 1431 | H24
313/3585/6 |
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Ardvar | Ardvare | ⅛ davach | 1642 | NC 1733 | Pont(4) back
Gordon(12) H4 313/3585/6 |
GD305/1/87/107 1642. Broch. |
Rientraid | Ryantraid-wintering | NC 1933 | H37
313/3585/7 |
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Unapool | Unapool | NC 2333 | Pont(4) back
Gordon(12) H42 313/3585/7 |
Eunlaboll in Pont. Ewnlaboll in Gordon. | ||
Ard-Assint | 1 davach | 1793 | 1 davach = 8 oxgates | |||
Ledbeg | Ledbeg | NC 2413 | Pont(4) back
Gordon(12) H30 313/3585/14 |
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Little Assynt | Little Assint | NC 1524 | Pont(4) back
Gordon(12) H32 313/3585/8 |
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Loch Beannach | Loch-Bannoch | NC 1326/1426 | H33
313/3585/5 |
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Poll a’ Gharbh Bhair | Poul-a-garvie | NC 1424 | H20
313/3585/12 |
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Poullakarkan | ||||||
Tumore | Tumore | NC 1826 | ||||
Eadar a’ Chalda | Edrachalda | NC 2423 | H21
313/3585/9 |
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Tubeg | Upper & Lower Tubeg | NC 1825/1924 | H41
313/3585/10 |
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Baddynacarbad | The wintering of Edrachalda | |||||
Achmore | Upper & Lower Achmore | NC 2424 | Pont(4) back
H2 313/3585/8 |
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Kirkton | c. NC 249220 | Pont(4) back
Gordon(12) H28 313/3585/9 |
See below. | |||
Culack?
= Culag? |
Culin | 1 oxgate? | 1774 |
c. NC 0922? |
H15
313/3585/13 |
See below under Kirkton and above under Culag. |
Half Camore | The half that wasn’t the minister’s glebe. Camore may have been an oxgate in total. | |||||
Gleann Dubh | 1 oxgate? | NC 2720 | See below under Kirkton. | |||
Inchnadamph | Inchnadaff | NC 2521 | Pont(4) back
Gordon(12) H25 313/3585/10 |
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Stronechrubie | Stronchruby | NC 2419 | Pont(4) back
Gordon(12) H39 313/3585/11 |
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Lyne | Laing | NC 2514 | H34
313/3585/11 |
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Ryancrovich | ||||||
Ledmore | Ledmore | NC 2412 | Pont(4) back
Gordon(12) H31 313/3585/15 |
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Cromalt | Cromauld | NC 2407 | H14
313/3585/16 |
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Aultnachie | Auldanachy | NC 2307 | H5
313/3585/16 |
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Elphin | Alpine | NC 2111 | H22
313/3585/15 |
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Knockan | Knock | NC 2110 | H29
313/3585/16 |
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Aultivullin | Auldyvulin | NC 2809 | See below under Auldyvulin. | |||
Kerrachar | NC 1734 | The first element in this place-name suggests ceathramh of quarterland. | ||||
Total | 4 davachs | 1793 |
Oldany
Oldany Island was Jura in 1386 (Caithness and Sutherland Records Vol I, Part VII, No 132, pp 173-4, London, 1913).
Oldany Island was Island Diura in GD84/1/11/15 1636. Dewroy in GD 84/1/12/1 1634.
Kirkton
In Home’s survey of 1774 Kirktown is described with the ox-gates of Culack, Camore and Glendu. Culack is probably the Culin of 1793. Under ‘Observations’ Home writes:
‘Kirktown comprehending the Manse, Culack, Camore and Glendu … both Culack and Camore are presently let to the Parson and have been let to his predecessors. … There is no farm in the height of Assint that can weigh with the above possession if consider’d as a grazing Farm having the best Aspect to the Sun and being one continued Tract of Lime-Stone’.
It is difficult to be certain but it seems as though Kirkton may have consisted of at least 3 oxgates. As with so many early ecclesiatical sites it comprised some of the best land in the neighbourhood. Even if it became lay after the Reformation it appears that the ministers retained practical possession, if not legal title.
Kirktown = Achnahiglash (OSA p 202).
Kirktoun, Balnaheglise or Achnahiglash at the East end of Loch Assynt (OPS II, II p 693). Church & B-G marked on OS 6″ 1st Series Sutherland Sheet LXXI 1875 at NC 249220.
NB Presence of both Kirkton and Inverkirkaig suggests two early churches.
Auldyvulin etc
OPS II, II p 696 fn 1 (following OSA p 182) says the underwritten, then in Criech, may have formerly belonged to the parish of Assynt:
Auldyvulin
Auldanfarn
Strathkeskach (Strath-ses-kach)
Knockhurny (Knock-kurny)
Glaswel
OSA spellings (where significantly different) are given in brackets.

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