Golspie Text

Golspie or Culmalie

 

Principal Sources

 

OSA Vol 9 No 3

 

RMS IV (241) 1548, (1484) 1563, (1635, 1669) 1565

 

RSS I (2024) 1509-10

RSS III (2899) 1548

RSS IV (1373) 1551

RSS V Pt II (2718) 1566

 

ER XIII pp 263-9 1509-10

GD128/47/8/6, Rental of the Earldom of Sutherland 1623

 

Retours (Caithness) (4) 1602

 

RS37/3/162v 1625

RS37/4/279r 1630

 

Fraser, Sutherland Book III, Abstracts: No’s 11, 29, 30, 60, 61

 

NLS Dep.313/81 Decreet of Sale of Skelbo 1787

NLS Dep.313/1598 Sir Robert Gordon’s tutor accounts with copy of the Sutherland Rental of 1624-5

NLS Dep.313/2099 late 17th C.

NLS Dep 313/3312 1674

 

The following are available online via the National Library of Scotland’s Digital Map Library:

(I have added a distinguishing letter to each of NLS Dep.313/3581 for easier identification in the table).

NLS Dep.313/3581(a) A Plan of that Part of the Parish of Golspie Lying betwixt the Policy of Dunrobin and the Bay of the Little Ferry, John Home

NLS Dep.313/3581(b) Craigtown, Balblair, Kirkton, Culmaily

NLS Dep.313/3581(c) Driemuy, John Kirk, c.1771

NLS Dep.313/3581(d) Farm of Rives, John Kirk, c.1771

NLS Dep.313/3581(e) Rives, Golspymore, Golspytower, John Kirk, c.1771

NLS Dep.313/3581(f) Mellaig Park, John Kirk, c.1771

NLS Dep.313/3581(g) Farm of Mellaig, John Kirk, c.1771

NLS Dep.313/3581(h) Plan of the Mains of Dunrobin, John Kirk, c.1771

NLS Dep.313/3581(i) Clayside, Inverboll, John Kirk, c.1771

NLS Dep.313/3581(m) Golspie Tower and Rhives

NLS Dep.313/3618/1 Sketch of Morvich, Aberscross and part of Kinnauld, 1810

NLS Dep.313/3591/3 Plan of Golspie, 1811

NLS Dep.313/3618/5 Uppat, 1812

NLS Dep.313/3618/3 Plan of Backies attested by William Cumming, 1812

NLS Dep.313/3618/20 Rough sketch of Dunrobin Mains, 1813

NLS Dep.313/3618/9 Plan of Rhives, 1814

NLS Dep.313/3591/9 Plan of Kirkton, 1829

NLS Dep.313/3618/13 Plan of Kirkton of Golspie, 1829

NLS Dep.313/3618/10 Plan of the Farm of Rhives, 1829

NLS Dep.313/3601 Large plan of Dunrobin Castle grounds, 1829

NLS Dep.313/3618/14 Plan of the Farm of Golspie Tower, 1829

NLS Dep.313/3591/13 Sketch of Golspie, 1830

NLS Dep.313/3618/28 Drummie, 1857

NLS Dep.313/3618/16 Plan of Golspie Tower Farm, 1863

NLS Dep.313/3618/29 Plan of the Farm of Drummie, 1870

NLS Dep.313/3618/30 Sketch showing subdivisions of … Drummie, 1871

NLS Dep.313/3618/31 Culmaily, n.d.

NLS Dep.313/3618/19 Sketch of Golspie Tower Farm, n.d.

NLS Dep.313/3616/23 Morvich and Kinnauld, n.d.

NLS Acc.10225/96 Plan of Morvich …

NLS Dep.313/3618/4 Sketch of Backies

 

Caithness and Sutherland Records Vol I, Part IX, London, 1922

Bangor-Jones pp 153-168 in Baldwin 1986 – specifically p 164 fig 10.3.

 

 

 

Bangor-Jones gives farms with a total of 123d which is 3d (½ a davach) short of 7 ouncelands or 21 davachs. I give 25 davachs in the table.

 

SHS Sutherland Estate Management Vol 1 Report by P Sellar 1811 Section VI Lands in the Parish of Golspie is important in giving us a detailed breakdown of the individual holdings. In the same volume are further lists from 1808, 1815 and 1802-16.

 

OPS II, II p 649, quoting Sutherland Charters, gives us a list of farms from which teind-sheaves were drawn in 1581 – including:

Uppat

Inverboll

Mellaig

Clayside

Dunrobin + Glen of Dunrobin

Allertoun

Backis

Golspie Tower

Golspie More

Golspie Kirktoune

Ruiffis

Drummuie

Kilmaly More

Kilmaly Craigtoun

E & W Aberscross