The first paragraph of the first chapter of the Third Statistical Account of Scotland - The County of Argyll (Collins - 1961) reads: "Argyll is the second largest of the Scottish counties, yielding pride of place only to its neighbour, Inverness, which bounds it on the north, from Loch Ericht by way of Loch Leven to the separating outlet of the River Shiel, flowing from the loch of the same name. It lost to Inverness in 1891 a portion to the north of Loch Eil; from that date, too, all the Small Isles were reckoned as being in Inverness." The first paragraph of the sixteenth chapter gives more detail. "The civil parish of Ardnamurchan, one of the two northernmost parishes of Argyll, now includes the whole of the peninsula of Ardnamurchan and, lying inland from it, the region of Sunart. It was formerly of much greater extent, but in 1891 it shed, to the north, the Moidart, Arisaig and South Morar districts of Inverness-shire (107,559 acres). With its western portion surrounded by the sea, it is bounded on the north by Loch Shiel, the river Shiel and Loch Moidart, which serve as the county boundary between Argyll and Inverness." There is a sketch map, figure 17, which shows the boundary changes of 1891. In ancient times, Argyll extended from Loch Broom to the Mull of Kintyre. In a sense, then, Inverness-shire is encroaching little by little into the former Argyllshire. Regards, Iain ---------- > From: LeRoy Ferguson <lefergus@worldonline.es> > To: SCT-INVERNESS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SCT-INV-L] How far did Inverness-shire extend? > Date: 27 September 2000 08:38 > > Someone just told me that her reading of the 1841 census indicates > that Inverness-shire then extended as far down as the Isle of Tiree in > the lower Hebrides. Does anyone have any information about this > possibility? > > LeRoy Ferguson > Madrid, Spain > > >