Lou Claonaig (the spelling I most often see) is a small group of houses a mile or two down the road (south) from Skipness village. I don't think it was ever a parish in its own right. The position as I understand it is that in 1753 a new parish, Saddell and Skipness was formed on the east coast of Kintyre by separating Skipness from Kilcalmonell and Kilberry, and Saddell from Killean. Before then the parish church serving Skipness had been at Clachan to the west. To serve the new parish (very long and narrow, with poor road communications) a new church was built at Claonaig in 1756. My g.g. grandfather, Peter TAYLOR, was born at Creggan, a farm very close to Claonaig church, in about 1789. Martyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Lou Ritter" <drlulu@chartermi.net> To: <SCT-ARGYLL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:39 PM Subject: Re: [ARGYLL] McIntyre in Claigin, Claigan or Claggan > Does anyone know if the parish of Skipness might have been known as the > parish of Clonaig in 1796? I have a marriage of Niell McNish of > Kilcalmonell & Kilberry parish to Christine McQuilkan of Clonaig Parish. > Lou Ritter >