Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Duirinish or Durinish a parish Groome
Durinish Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Ardmore a headland Groome
Ascrib a cluster of uninhabited islets Groome
Ascrib Isles a group of uninhabited islets Bartholomew
Bay hamlet and sea-loch Bartholomew
Bay a hamlet and a sea-loch Groome
Candlestick cavern, 100 ft. long and 50 ft. high, on coast Bartholomew
Candlestick a cavern Groome
Colbost hamlet Bartholomew
Colbost a hamlet Groome
Dunvegan a village, a castle, a sea-loch, and a headland Groome
Dunvegan village with inn, on loch of same name Bartholomew
Edinbain a hamlet Groome
Edinbane village with inn Bartholomew
Fairy-Bridge a place Groome
Flashader district Bartholomew
Galtrigill hamlet Bartholomew
Glendale a vale Groome
Glendale seat Bartholomew
Greshornish, Loch sea-loch Bartholomew
Harlosh hamlet Bartholomew
Idrigill Point headland Bartholomew
Isay Island island Bartholomew
Kildonan village Bartholomew
Knockbreek place with school Bartholomew
Loanmore place with school Bartholomew
Lochbay place with school Bartholomew
Loch Bay a bay Groome
Loch Bay sea-loch Bartholomew
Macleod's Maidens 3 rocks Bartholomew
Macleod's Maidens three insulated basaltic pillars of Duirinish parish, Isle of Skye Groome
Macleod's Tables 2 flat-topped hills Bartholomew
Moonen Bay bay Bartholomew
Vattin Bridge school 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 Duirinish 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 September 21st to 24th, 1773: Dunvegan to Talisker 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
Dunvegan 0 2
Bay 0 2
Edinbain 0 1
Bracadale 0 2
Uig 0 2
Snizort 1 4
Talisker 0 2
Carbost 0 2
Skye 0 2
Portree 16 2
Kilmuir 0 2
Borniskittag 0 2
Staffin 0 3
Raasay 0 2
Ronay 0 2
Coruisk 0 2
Rona 0 2
Lochmaddy 0 2
Soay 0 2
Scalpay 0 2