The Small Isles: Canna, Rum, Eigg, Muck
Name | Value | Date | Grid Ref | Map Sources | Other forms, comments etc |
Canna & Sanday | (50d/15m) | = 2½ ouncelands | |||
A’Chill/Kirktoun/Keil | 12d | 1798 | NG 2605 | Bald(1805) | 16d(1748 & AVR 1751) when it probably included Upper Island?
Keill(1718, 1805), Kirktoun(1748), Kilchannich(1751), Keil(1798). |
Upper Island | 4d | 1798 | Bald(1805) | Upper Island = West Sanday (Bald map & JL Campbell p 135) | |
An Coroghon | 7d | 1798 | NG 2705 | Bald(1805) | 16d with Elangannich (AVR 1751), (Elangannich=Sanday) |
Sanday | 9d | 1798 | Bald(1805) | Dispute whether 8d or 9d | |
Tarbert | 15d | 1745 | NG 2305 | Bald(1805) | Fraser-Mackintosh, Antiquarian Notes (1913) p 17, Bond of 1745.
18d(1751, 1781, 1798) probably including Garrisdale |
Garrisdale | 3d | 1745 | NG 2104 | Bald(1805) | Fraser-Mackintosh, Antiquarian Notes (1913) p 17, Bond of 1745. |
Rum | 6m | 1528 | Consistently 6m (OE). = 1 ounceland. | ||
Kilmory | 4m (OE) | 1542 | NG 3603 | Consistently 4m. Killemore(1542, 1630), Killiemoir(1617), Killiemorie(1630, 1632). | |
Harris | 2m (OE) | 1542 | NM 3395 | Consistently 2m | |
An Leth-pheighinn | (½d) | NG 3600 | The Gaelic name literally means ‘The Half-penny’. | ||
Eigg | (100d) | = 5 ouncelands | |||
Galmisdale | 10d | 1498 | NM 4783 | Leslie(1824) | |
Grulin
Growlanicrich |
20d
6d |
1498
1668 |
NM 4485
NM 4584/4684 |
Leslie(1824) | Grulin consisted of 2 parts in 1498: Etrach (=Lower?) and Neyvaidlean – each worth 10d, so making an ounceland in total.
RS38/3/294v 1668. |
Sanda | 10d | 1498 | NM 4784 | Leslie(1824) | Sanda consisted of 2 parts in 1498: ‘more’ and ‘veg’ – each worth 5d. Leslie’s map shows Sandaveg NE of Sandamore. |
Laig | 9d | 1498 | NM 4687 | Leslie(1824) | |
Cleadale | 12d | 1498 | NM 4788 | Leslie(1824) | |
Ballemeanach | 8d | 1498 | This name is now lost. See below. | ||
Houlin | 5d | 1498 | NM 4789 | Leslie(1824) | |
Knokelturk | 6d | 1498 | c. NM 475890 | Leslie(1824) | = Cnoc Iltaig. Cnoc na Eildrige in OS(1875) 6”. |
Kildonnan | (20d)/6m | 1498 | NM 4985 | Leslie(1824) | Kildonnan is never stated as 20d but at 6m it was equivalent. |
Cuig Peighinnean | (5d) | NM 4789 | Leslie(1824) | The Gaelic name literally means ‘Five pennies’. | |
Muck | 6m | 1618 | = 1 ounceland. | ||
Kile | 1751 | NM 4279 | Argyll Valuation Roll 1751 p 73. | ||
Balimenoch | 1751 | Argyll Valuation Roll 1751 p 73. | |||
Gallanach | 1751 | NM 4080 | Langlands(1801) | Baillie in Galdanach (AS II (418) 1632). Argyll Valuation Roll 1751 p 73. | |
Total Small Isles | 9½ ozs | or 9½ davachs |
Eigg
After the neat settlement of 1498 the situation in the north of Eigg becomes confused. The farm of Ballemeanach disappears although we have references in TD 85/63 Bundle 29 of 1805 and Fraser-Mackintosh, Excerpta … Vol II No 173 of 1823 which suggest that half of it was absorbed into Kildonnan. The same Fraser-Mackintosh extract refers to ’11d Knockeltiag & Cleadhill … ½ the lands of Knockaltack now called the 5 Pennies’. Certainly the settlement of Cuig Peighinnean (Five Pennies at NM 4789) did not exist under that name in 1498 but I do not know exactly how and when Ballemeanach disappeared, Knokelturk was transformed and Five Pennies emerged. However we do know the last existed by 1764-5 because it is referred to in Neill McNeill’s Census.
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