Thank you Iain for sharing your trip to Islay, having been there as resent as last August if brought back memoeries of the beautiful Isle. We attended a Sunday service in the Round Church, it was a wonderful experiance complete with the " sweeties " that were gived to the visiters as we entered. The church is especially interesting when viewed from upstairs in part of the original building. Thanks again, Margaret. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Iain Sinclair" <iain@iainsinclair.me.uk> To: <sct-islay@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 4:06 AM Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Cruach and Corrary on Islay > Hello Deborah, > > Today, Cruach is a small number of scattered houses in farmland just > outside Bowmore which is the main town on Islay. > Corrary is a farm, also not far from Bowmore, where the Bowmore to Port > Ellen road crosses the river Laggan. 2 miles along the river is Curalach > where my Sinclair ancestors lived and worked. a few years ago I wrote a > note about my first visit to Islay. It is on Steve's website at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/sinclair.htm It might give you > a flavour. > If you look at an OS map of Islay you will find them quite easily. > > In the time of your forebears each of these farming areas, and many > others, were worked by tenant farmers and farm labourers living in small 2 > room cottages which were very basic. Most have been demolished over the > years or had new buildings erected. There would typically have been > several families working on each farm, and many of them moved from farm to > farm, so your family living at Cruach and then Corrary would have been > quite normal. They are probably less than 2 miles apart. > > Hope this helps. > > Iain > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >