In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Auchnacraig like this:
Achnacraig or Auchnacraig, a hamlet in Torosay parish, island of Mull, Argyllshire, on the coast, at Loch Don, 8½ miles W by N of Oban. It has a post office with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, under Oban, an inn, and a small harbour: and is the principal ferry-station of Mull, first to the opposite island of Kerrera, a distance of about 4½ miles, and thence to the mainland near Oban, a distance of 4 miles. Great numbers of black cattle are conveyed from it for the lowland markets: and formerly those also from Coll and Tiree were landed on the further side of Mull, and here reshipped.
Auchnacraig through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Auchnacraig in Argyll and Bute | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22326
Date accessed: 21st May 2013
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