In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Kilchattan like this:
Kilchattan, a village and a bay in Kingarth parish, Bute island, Buteshire. The village, 7 miles S by E of Rothesay, forms a curve round the south-western mar.in of the bay, and chiefly consists of plain small cottages. It has a post office under Rothesay; and a new pier was built in 1880 at a cost of £2000. ...
Later undertakings have been the introduction of water at a cost of £1000, and the erection of a large hotel and several villas. The bay, measuring 1 ¾ mile across the mouth, and 7 furlongs thence to its inmost recess, has a semi-circular outline, and looks eastward to the S end of Big Cumbrae. On 3 Aug. 1881, 5 lives were lost in it by the sinking of a yacht. Pop.of village (1881) 343.—Ord. Sur.,sh. 21, 1870.
Kilchattan through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Kilchattan, in Argyll and Bute and Buteshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22174
Date accessed: 18th April 2024
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