Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Inveraray. You may be able to find further references to Inveraray in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Inveraray	a town and a parish	Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Inveraray.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Achandarine	village	Bartholomew
Achantiobairt	place with stone crosses	Bartholomew
Auchindrain	hamlet	Bartholomew
Gear Abhainn (Short River)		Bartholomew
Lenach-Gluthin	waterfall	Bartholomew
Shira	rivulet	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Inveraray within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
James Boswell	October 23rd to 26th, 1773: Inveraray	6
Thomas Pennant	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	3
James Boswell	October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull	2
James Boswell	October 27th to November 7th, 1773: Through Glasgow to Ayrshire	2
Samuel Johnson	South to Glasgow and Auchinleck	2
Thomas Pennant	July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire	2
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VI: The Life of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel	2
James Boswell	August 27th to 31st, 1773: Forres to Glen Moriston via Inverness	1
George Head	Up the West Highland Coast	1
Samuel Johnson	Arrival on Skye; Armadale	1
Thomas Pennant	August 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Strachur	0	3
Kilmorich	0	2
Cairndow	0	2
Furnace	0	2
Argyll	0	2
Cumlodden	0	2
Lochgoilhead	2	2
Dalavich	0	2
Cladich	0	2
Awe	0	4
Stralachlan	0	1
Cowall	0	2
Kilchrenan	0	2
Inishail	0	2
Croe	0	2
Fraoch Eilean	0	3
Minard	0	2
Ardgartan	0	2
Loch Long	0	2
Kilchurn	0	3