OS1/2/49/141

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CASTLES [a farm] Castles
Castles
Castles
Duncan Dewar Dalmally
John Grieve Occupier
Duncan Campbell Dhuletter
101 A superior farm steading and grazing bearing this name situate about 3 miles North west from Dalmally Church.
CASTLE (Site of) [CastIes] Castle (Site of)
Castle (Site of)
Castle (Site of)
Duncan Dewar
John Grieve
Duncan Campbell
Rev [Reverend] Mr McLean
101 Immediately to the north of Castles farm there can be traced the foundation of a building said by the authorities quoted to have been one of the Castles of the MacGregors. The dwelling house of Castles has been built by the stones taken from it.
CORRIES (Ruins) Corries (Ruins)
Corries (Ruins)
Corries (Ruins)
Corries (Ruins)
Duncan Dewar
John Grieve
Duncan Campbell
Rev [Reverend] Mr McLean
101 A number of ruins about half a mile west of Castles farm house.
STOB MAOL Stob Maol
Stob Maol
Stob Maol
Stob Maol
Duncan Dewar
John Grieve
Duncan Campbell
Rev [Reverend] Mr McLean
101 A prominent rocky hill immediately to the north of Castles farm house. Sign [Signification] "Bald Point"

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Sheet 101 Argyllshire

Castle (Site of), Names Column, a note: "in G.T [Gothic Text?]"
"On the farm of Castles stood another of these buildings to which Circumstance the name of the farm may with the most absolute certainty be attributed. Not a vestige of it now remains." New Stat Acc [Statistical Account].

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