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Kiltarlity & Convinth Table

Kiltarlity and Convinth  (United parish of Kiltality & Convinth). ST2 = S Taylor with R MacLean & Jacob King, Place-Names of the Aird and Strathglass, Inverness-shire, Kiltarlity Community Council, 2019. Map references such as Lovat355 1757 and GB084 1798-1800 refer

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Kiltarlity & Convinth Map

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The Aird Text Summary

The Aird   What follows is an attempt to tease out the ownership and assessment of the Aird.   Firstly we should note the spelling variants, e.g. Ard, Arde, Aird Beufort, Beuforte, Bewfort, Bewfurd, Beaufort   We also find references

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The Aird Table

The ‘Quarters’ of the Aird   RMS II (3799) 1512-1513  reveals that in 1403 there had been an indenture between William de Fentoun and Margaret de Ard, lady of Ercles.   RMS II (178) 1430, on an original of 1415-16

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The Fentoun Estate in the Aird

The Fentoun Estate in the Aird Lindsay Quarter (1) 1497-8 King’s Quarter (3) 1499 Ogilvy Quarter (8) 1501 Douglas Quarter (10) 1509 Total value of each farm ¼ Quhilbrane ext. 2½m ¼ Kilbryny 2½m Culbrwim Kilbirny 10m = 1 davach

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Aird schematic

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Harris Text Summary

Harris   Principal Sources   Old Statistical Account, Vol X,  No XXVIII, pp 342-392, by Rev. Mr John Macleod, published Edinburgh, 1794. New Statistical Account, Vol XIV, 1845 (on original completed in 1841)   RMS II (2420) 1498 RMS IV

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Harris Table

Harris   Name Value Date Grid Ref Map Sources Other forms, comments etc Cliasamol 1d 1746 NB 0706 Bald 1d(1838). Linked with Soay and reckoned as part of Paible in Taransay? Possibly represented 1d of 4d of Paible, in which

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Harris Map

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Lewis Text Summary

Lewis   Acknowledgement Some years ago, after a seminar in Glasgow, A. MacCoinnich was kind enough to share his research findings with me. They appear as Appendix D8 in A. MacCoinnich, Plantation and Civility in the North Atlantic World –

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