Tom Thanks very much. That is very helpful. Copies of the extracts would be very welcome as I hope to visit the area again next week. I will be looking at the area round the now abandoned 'modern' house with great interest. For the record, my geat great grandfather and mother (Kerr and Janet Armstrong) lived at Mussel (now part of a cowshed!), my GG grandfather and mother (William Grant and Mary Armstrong) married there and my grandfather (Donald) was born there. My GGF/M then moved up to the shepherd's house at the modern Allnabad (now roofless and abandoned except by sheep) which stands on or close to the site you describe. A daughter (Janet) was born there before the family moved to Freisgill south of Whiten Head. Details at http://members.aol.com/donjgrant. Don Grant Chesham, Bucks In a message dated 06/05/2003 00:06:15 GMT Standard Time, tmwgray@btinternet.com writes: > Don, > > Don't have any information on the village but I do have it on a couple of > map sections that I downloaded (I think from the Charting the Nation > website) > > South from Loch Hope is the village of Mussel. South again is the Dun > Dornadilla or Dun Dornigill. Continuing south the road shows a fork going > westward into Glen Golly and ends at a shooting Lodge. Blaid is on this > small fork. > None of this is on the modern map, but I would think it is not far south of > Altnacaillich in Strathmore. > Let me know if you would like a copy of the map sent off list. > > My interest in Blaid is that my GG G-Father Donald McKay's (b abt. 1798) > family seem to have come from this area. He was later evicted or cleared > to > Strath Melness. > Tom McKay Watson Gray > Aberdeen, Scotland > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.476 / Virus Database: 273 - Release Date: 24/04/2003 > > >