In a message dated 11/09/02 23:21:47 GMT Daylight Time, SCT-ARGYLL-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > Does Northbar still exist? I understand it was a mansion-like house in it's > day. Also, where exactly is/was it? > Groome's Gazetteer ( 1883 ) listsNorth Barr as being in Inchinnan in Renfrewshire " The estate of North Barr was purchased originally in 1670 by Donald McGilchrist who claimed descent from the Lord of Tarbert of Robert the Bruce's time . Part of it passed to the family of Balfour but the greater part was in 1741 acquired by Lord Semphill .An old baronial fortalice on it has since been demolished . " Col frae Crieff