Muck Summary Text

Muck

 

Principal Sources

 

RMS VI (536) 1596-7 linking Muck with Ungnacille in Skye

RMS VIII (140) 1621 confirming charter of 1617

RMS IX (1310) 1643

RMS X (531) 1656

 

AS II (14) 1618, (418, 420) 1632, (688) 1642

Argyll Retours (81) 1674, (103) 1673

APS VII p 403 1662

CRA p 3 1561

Argyll Valuation Roll 1751 (Mitchell Library, Glasgow – Reference TD 363) p 73 specifies settlements of Kile, Balimenoch & Gallanoch

 

Macfarlane’s Geographical Collections II pp 175, 528

WF Skene, Celtic Scotland III, p 434

Langlands, Map of Argyllshire, 1801

J Munby, Lost Ancestors – Island families in 1765 on Eigg, Muck, Rum & Canna, Oxford, 2007.

 

 

With the sole exception of Skene’s source, who is also wrong for Rum and Canna, Muck is consistently described as 6m Old Extent. According to the Argyll Valuation Roll of 1751 the three component townships were Kile, Balimenoch & Gallanoch. It originally belonged to the Bishop of the Isles.

 

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