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Mull Summary Table

  Summary Table – Mull   North Mull Pennylands merklands Ratio ouncelands Treshnish 8 10 1d:1¼m Mornish 10 12½ 1d:1¼m Quinish 16 20 1d:1¼m Mishnish 16 20 1d:1¼m Aros 16 20 1d:1¼m Ungistaffard 10 12½ 1d:1¼m Learballeneill 32 40 1d:1¼m

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Ross of Mull Summary

The Ross of Mull   The Ross of Mull provides a good example of the attrition of the Norse pennyland valuation that once extended along most of the west coast. The Ross belonged to the monastery of Iona and was

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South Mull Table

South Mull   Name Value Date Grid Ref Map Sources Other forms, comments etc Gribun Ex Iona nunnery. Winschear 1d 1574 c. NM 4432/NM 4433? Kingsheyer(1574), Winschear(1616), Eingschyer(1617), Kingschyir(1635), Englishaw(1672), Kingishair(1674).1d(1616, 1617, 1623, 1624, 1629, 1672, 1674) Balmeanach 1d 1574

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Ross of Mull Table

Ross The entries in the 1674 rental are sometimes not complete. Name Value Date Grid Ref Map Sources Other forms, comments etc Ross £20 1509 £20 in 1509(ER XIII p 214) & 1561(CRA p 1), 1635(AS II (550)), 1637(HP I

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North Mull Table

North Mull   Name Value Date Grid Ref Map Sources Other forms, comments etc Treshnish NM 3548 BlaeuLanglands(1801) RHP 12783 4d(1390), 5½d(1509), 7d(1510), 5d(1541), 6d(1674), 8d(1751).(Perhaps originally included farms later listed in Learballeneill)? Trese-nes(Blaeu). Crackaig 1¼m(1d) 1509 NM 351459 Cragag(1509),

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Mull Summary

Mull   The land-assessment situation in Mull is uniquely complex. Its conversion rate between ouncelands and merklands is the highest of all the Hebrides – by far. Moreover, Mull is the only Hebridean island to have more than one exchange

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Mull Sources

Mull, Ulva, Gometra, Iona, Treshnish Isles   Principal Sources   RMS I App I No 114 c. 1343   RMS II (2200) 1493-4, (2264) 1390 & 1495, (2329) 1496, (3440) 1510 RMS III (712) 1528, (1745) 1537-8, (2065) 1539-40, (2739,

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