Bill, I wonder if this could be Baranald - on Ordnance Survey sheet 53 (Landranger Series) a building (possibly derelict) is marked at map ref 076603 and named on the map as Barnauld. It is just east of the southern end of Loch Fad. The 1996 Transactions of the Buteshire Natural History Society has a map of Bute settlement names attested before 1600. Barnauld also appears there, Madeleine Wales In a message dated 12/14/00 9:43:31 PM GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Wonder if anyone can help me. I'm trying to track down a distant relative, Robert MCNICOL, son of the late Robert McNicol, tenant in Baranald. This was from a marriage proclamation in 1810 but can not find out where it was.