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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| KINGARTH | Kingarth Kingarth Kingarth Kingarth Kingarth Kingarth Kingarth Kingarth Kingarth Kingarth Kingarth Kingarth |
Old Stat [Statistical ] Account New Stat [ Statistical ] Account Fullarton's Gazetteer Sheriff's Returns Origines Parchiales Wilson's Guide to Bute County Directory Estate Plans County Maps Oliver Boyd's Almanac Revd. Dr. [Reverend Doctor] Buchanan Ph [Parish] Minister Mr Muir Factor |
This parish occupies the southern part of the Island of Bute. It takes its name frrom a promontory forming its extreme point to the South, called in the Gaelic language Ceann Garbh, which Signifies Stromyend, or Stormyhead. It is 6½ Miles in length from North to South: & its Average breadth is 2½ Miles. It is bounded on the North and North west by Loch Ascog, a part of Loch FAd and Quien Loch which separate it from the parish of Rothsay. And on the East, South, and West, by the Firth of Clyde. It is irregular in figure, being indented by Several Small bays on both Sides; but it gradually narrows from its northern extremity, till it becomes an isthmus of a Mile & a half in breadth, beyond which it forms a peninsula of 2 Miles in legth, terminating in the promontory above mentioned. The Coast to the east & south is for the most part rocky, in many places precipitously at a little distance from the shore, in ridges that appear to have at a former period served as a barrier to the Sea, & to have been subsequently raised by volcanic action to their present level. To the West the coast |
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