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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I
… because of the intelligence of Spain with Ireland; but the Hebrides Islands might afford a counterpoise. Splendid …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… Perhaps Cairnburgbeg or Cairnburgmore in the Argyllshire Hebrides. Cf. Carndburg, p. 49. A reference to the exiled …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… came thus to be felt throughout the whole extent of the Hebrides; and it became necessary for the Government to take …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… farm of the King's possessions in the Isle of Islay in the Hebrides, where M'Connell has a good inheritance and occupies …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of Bute and part of Loch Fine, as well as of some of the Hebrides, and displaying on their bosom an agreeable variety … hospitably entertained Dr. Johnson, when on a visit to the Hebrides, are also preserved here, The island is now the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… The king in person visited the different islands of the Hebrides, and in the parish of Kilmuir was met by a number of … that, when he visited this place, in his tour through the Hebrides, it was entirely destitute of wood; but plantations … isles, which formed two distinct governments when the Hebrides were subject to Denmark.See Staffa, Tobermory, Ulva, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the series called Long Island, and is the largest of the Hebrides, or Western Isles, is separated from the main land … land, of which the soil is among the most fertile of the Hebrides. The system of agriculture, though slowly improving, … parish of Barra, county of Inverness. This is one of the Hebrides, and lies in the sound of Pabbay, a short distance …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… LONG ISLAND. This name is given to that district of the Hebrides which extends from the island of Lewis, on the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Denmark and Norway, having subdued the Orcades and the Hebrides, took possession also of this island, where he fixed … of the Isles. Godred, who also held the sovereignty of the Hebrides, or Western Islands, maintained a naval force … King of Norway, having conquered the Orkneys and the Hebrides, now possessed himself, almost without resistance, …
Map of Outer Hebrides
Ordnance Survey maps of the Outer Hebrides from the nineteenth century