Olrig
| Name | Value | Date | Grid Ref | Map Sources | Other forms, comments etc |
| Easter Murkill | 4½d
(18d) |
1549
1607 |
ND 1768 | Thomson(1822) | RSS IV (202) 1549. 9d Murkle-be-est (i.e. by east) in RMS XI (53) 1661. RS36/2/188v 1607 says ¼ of E Murkill was 4½d. The whole was therefore 18d or 1 ounceland of 3 davachs.
Broch (possible) Burnside – ND 162688. |
| Fryster | ND 1863 | ||||
| Sibmister | 1d | 1605 | ND 1666 | Blaeu(Caithness)
Gordon(9) |
1d Subanister in Retours (Caithness) (6). Sebbuster in Blaeu.
¾ of in RS36/2/282r 1607. Broch (possible) Cairn of Sibmister – ND 165662. |
| Mains of Olrig
Netherside |
2d
5d |
1561
1661 |
ND 1866
ND 1966 |
Blaeu(Caithness)
Gordon(9) |
See below. GD96/227 1587. Olrick(Blaeu).
Broch (possible) Olrig House – ND 189662. 5d in RMS XI (53) 1661. 2⅞d in GD112/58/102/3 1696. |
| Kirkfield | ND 1865 | Presumably once part of one of the 2d churchlands of Olrig. | |||
| Wester (Olrig) | 5d | 1696 | ND 2164 | Blaeu(Caithness)
Roy(FC) Thomson(1822) |
Wester in the documents. Westre in Blaeu. See below. |
| Hoy | 4½d | 1661 | ND 2163 | Blaeu(Caithness)
Gordon(9) |
RS20/1/p 155 1661. 4½d would be a quarter-ounceland.
|
| Swarclet | ND 2162 | Roy(FC) | S. of Hoy. | ||
| Lochside | 2¾d | 1696 | ND 2165 | GD112/58/102/3 1696, GD112/58/102/4 1696,
GD112/58/102/5 1696 |
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| Durran
Durran Mains |
(8d) | 1559 | ND 1963
ND 1962 |
Blaeu(Caithness)
Gordon(9) |
Rent given in OPS II, II p 788 implies 8d. Ex bishopric. See text file ‘Inferring pennylands from rentals’. Dyrane in RMS VI (1729) 1606. Broch (possible) Burnside, Durran – ND 195635. |
| Borgie Mains | ND 1964 | Thomson(1822) | Broch (possible) Borgie House – ND 191671. | ||
| Thurdistoft | ND 2067 | Roy(FC)
Thomson(1822) |
Broch (possible) Thurdistoft – ND 207673. | ||
| Tain
Links of Old Tain |
9⅜d | 1661 | ND 2266
ND 2168 |
Thomson(1822) | RMS XI (53) 1661.
‘Old Tain’ overwhelmed by sand-blow? NSA Vol XV p 62. |
| Stangergill | 9d | 1549 | ND 1967 | Blaeu(Caithness)
Gordon(9) Roy(FC) |
RSS IV (202) 1549. RS36/2/37r 1606.
4d GD96/398 1616. 3½d of Westsyd of Stangergill in GD96/552 1638. 9d would be half an ounceland. See below. |
| Garth | ND 2067 | Roy(FC) | |||
| Northfield | ND1962 | Blaeu(Caithness)
Gordon(9) |
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| Total | 64⅝d + |
RMS VII (1508) 1616 gives the following properties in Olrig: Olrik, a two-part (⅔) of Taine and Scoricleit, Murkle-be-eist. The editor suggests Scoricleit may be Swarclett. (Dirain [Durran] is added later in the document).
Roy(FC) marks a Swarclet to south of Hoy. It is Swarclett in OS 6″ 1st Series Caithness Sheet XII 1872 at ND 2162.
Olrig
In RMS IV (2437) 1575 (on original of 1561) Olrig contained two church pennylands called Nethirsyde and Ovirsyde of Olrik. Each paid 20s per annum.
RMS VI (1467) 1603, on original of 1600, gives these as part of the bishopric lands:
‘2 church pennylands of the rectory of Olrik, one to the lower side of the township of Olrik called Nether-syid and the other on the upper side (Over-syid), with houses and 2 crofts annexed to them (occupied by Hugo Millar and Henry Robertson [or Richartsoun]), with a house occupied by ‘Joannem’ Wilsoun and a croft adjacent, with teind sheaves included of the said 2 pennylands and 3 crofts … and with the meadow lie Persones-medow [the Parson’s meadow] next to the cemetery of the parish church of Olrik’. [Rector also named].
See also RS20/1/p 165 1662.
GD112/58/102/3 1696, GD112/58/102/4 1696 & GD112/58/102/5 1696 all give a wadset of 2⅞d in Netherside of Olrig. This will have been additional to the church pennyland of Netherside.
Sutherland, Caithness 1770 to 1832, pp 29-30 states 10d Olrig in 1596.
It may be that Olrig consisted of 2 x 6d units with 1d of each allocated to the church.
Wester
5d in GD112/58/102/3 1696, GD112/58/102/4 1696, GD112/58/102/5 1696.
Stangergill
RS20/1/p 296 1672 refers to the ‘lands of half Scatland in the toun of Stangergill’.
GD112/58/102/3 1696 gives 4½d East Stangergale + a wadset of a further 2¼d (= 6¾d).
GD112/58/102/4 1696 & GD112/58/102/5 1696 give 5d East side Stangergill + a wadset of a further 2¼d + ¼d on the East side of Stangergill called Houstrie + ½d between the burns of Stangergill above Harland. Assuming all these were properly Stangergill the total is 8d in 1696. There remains ambiguity about how much in east and west respectively.
Broch (possible) Castlehill – ND 193687.
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