Kirkhill
Principal Sources
OSA Vol 4 No 14
Mor. Reg. No 21 pp 15-16
Mor. Reg. No 41 pp 35-36 1239
Mor. Reg. No 51 pp 59-60 c. 1221
RMS II (2320) 1496, (3184) 1501, (3531) 1509, (3602) 1511, (3730) 1512
RMS III (556) 1527-8, (1601) 1536, (2733) 1542
RMS IV (704) 1552, (2348) 1568
RMS VII (1552, 1554) 1616
RMS X (406, 414) 1655
NLS Acc11244/1
ER VIII p 60 1470-1, pp 168 & 183 1473, p 416 1477
ER IX p 111 1481, p 166 1482, p 396 1486, p 478 1487
ER X p 11 1488, p 769 1494
ER XI p 390 p 446 1499, pp 352-3 1499/1500-1500/1501
ER XII pp 58-9 1501-2, p 127 1502-3, pp 217-18 1503-4, pp 347-8 1504-5, p 415 1505-6, p 516 1506-7, p 666 1506
ER XIII p 658 1508
ER XIV p 565 1514
ER XV p 583 1524, pp 625-6 1524-5
ER XIX p 553 1566, p 562 1567
ER XX p 534 1578
ER XXI pp 87-8 1580, pp 182-3 1582
Retours (Inverness) (3) 1562, (5) 1566, (8) 1578, (31) 1617, (38) 1620, (40) 1622, (52) 1633, (54) 1634, (59) 1636, (63) 1640, (81) 1656, (83, 84) 1657, (97) 1665, (100) 1670, (104) 1679, (116) 1693, (117) 1694
GD1/187/16 1707
GD23/10/105 1672, GD23/10/124 1675, GD23/10/126 1675, GD23/10/267 & 284 1688, GD23/10/334 1693, GD23/10/400 1700, GD23/10/476 1709, GD23/10/483 1710, GD23/10/484 1710, GD23/10/551 1741
GD90/1/214 1598
GD100/157 1527-8
GD176/53 1546-7, GD176/72 1555, GD176/83 1567, GD176/101 1570, GD176/215 1607
GD181/9/1 1496
GD305/1/127/17 1659, GD305/1/144/5 1666
NLS Dep.327/59/2 is original for RMS II (3602) 1511. See ST2 p 146.
RS36/2/41v 1606, RS36/2/44v 1606, RS36/2/192r 1607, RS36/2/366v 1608, RS36/2/368r 1608
RS37/1/67v 1618, RS37/1/124v 1619, RS37/1/157v 1619
RS38/2/153r 1664
RS38/3/27r 1666
RS38/4/188v 1673
RHP11642 1814
RHP47075 1787
Maps from the Lovat (and other) Archives available on the internet via the National Library of Scotland’s Digital Map Library:
GB009, GB011, GB013, GB015, GB017, GB019, GB021, GB023, GB025, GB028, GB030
Lovat050, Lovat056, Lovat057, Lovat058, Lovat059, Lovat060, Lovat061, Lovat064, Lovat130, Lovat146, Lovat189, Lovat203, Lovat204, Lovat205, Lovat207, Lovat222-1, Lovat228, Lovat229, Lovat230, Lovat232, Lovat240, Lovat241, Lovat242, Lovat246, Lovat257, Lovat263, Lovat268, Lovat269, Lovat276, Lovat322, Lovat360
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The Book of the Thanes of Cawdor, (pp 87-8, 1497), Edinburgh, 1859
Barron, H., ‘Notes on the Aird’, TGSI (Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness) 45, 1967-8, pp 196-231, (republished by GSI, Inverness, 2011, pp 47-79).
Batten, E.C., The Charters of the Priory of Beauly, London, 1877
Fraser-Mackintosh, C., Invernessiana, Inverness, 1875
Harrison, H.W., A History of the Parish of Kirkhill, Vols I & II, Printed for private circulation, 2008
W Macgill, Old Ross-shire and Scotland as seen in the Tain and Balnagown Documents, Inverness, 1909
W Mackay (ed.), Chronicles of the Frasers (The Wardlaw Manuscript), Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1905.
Mackenzie, A., History of the Frasers of Lovat, Inverness, 1896
H Paton (ed) The Mackintosh Muniments, Edinburgh, 1903. (No’s 101, 160, 194, 215, 261, 262 & 269).
J Munro, The Inventory of Chisholm Writs 1456-1810, Scottish Record Society, Edinburgh, 1992
Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis, Edinburgh, 1837. = Mor. Reg.
Ross, A., The Province of Moray, c. 1000-1230, unpublished PhD thesis, Aberdeen, 2003. = Ross(1)
Ross, A., Land Assessment and Lordship in Medieval Northern Scotland, Brepols, 2015. = Ross(2)
S Taylor, Place-Name Survey of the parishes of Kilmorack, Kiltarlity & Convinth, and Kirkhill, Inverness-shire, 2002 (Pdf file available on the Internet). = ST1
S Taylor with R MacLean & Jacob King, Place-Names of the Aird and Strathglass, Inverness-shire, Kiltarlity Community Council, 2019. = ST2
FM 772 pp 4-5 1840, Inverness Reference Library + Plan of Fingask 1811 by N Maclean
Kirkhill consists of the former parishes of Wardlaw and Farnway. Earlier still Wardlaw was known as Dunballoch. According to Mor. Reg. No 51 1221 9 davachs were assigned to Dunballoch. Wardlaw/Dunballoch was united to the parish of Farnway in 1614. ST2 (pp 220-221) thought Farnway was an earlier distinct parish and not formed out of Dunballoch. Ross(2) p 242 thought Farnway was a small parish of about 3 davachs (consisting of Inglistoun, Inchberrie, Bunchrew, Phopache).
The table shows 12½ davachs in Kirkhill parish of which 3½ were once Farnway, 9 were Dunballoch. There remains some uncertainty as to precisely which farms the davachs of Ferc’ and Lusnatorn evolved into.
As with Kiltarlity and Convinth it is remarkable how the boundaries marked in the pre-Ordnance Survey estate maps can still be seen today. Davachs may have gone from our vocabulary but they still feature in our landscape.
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