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Ordnance Survey - Inverness county, OS Name Books - Inverness county (Mainland) - Volume 44 - Parishes of Kilmonivaig, Laggan, Kingussie and Insh, OS1/17/44

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Parish of Kilmonivaig -- Inverness shire

[note] cancelled

"The parish is in the presbytery of Abertarff and synod of Glenelg, Patron
Walker of Crawfordton Stipend £303 19.11d Glebe £30. Unappropriated teinds
£275.12.11d. Schoolmaster's Salary £34.4.4½d and about £8. fees, and other
Emoluments. The parish church is situated in the Great glen at the mouth of
Glen Spean; and was built about the year 1812. and contains 300 sittings
There is a mission church of the Royal County in Glengarry. There are two
preaching stations of the Free church at Kilmonavaig and Glengarry; and
the sum raised in connection with them in 1855 was £29.8s There is a
Roman Catholic chapel in the Braes of Lochaber, built about the year 1826
and containing 400 sittings There are in the parish an Assembly's
school, a Society's School, and several private schools. The parish of
Kilmonavaig was so prominently concerned in the events of 1745 that
it got the name of "the cradle of the rebellion." Imperial Gazetteer.

[signed] John Duncan
Lce Corpl R.E. [Lance Corporal Royal Engineers]

G. Herbert Bolland Capt REngr [Captain Royal Engineers]
15 Sept [September] 1870

Ordnance Survey - Inverness county, OS Name Books - Inverness county (Mainland) - Volume 44 - Parishes of Kilmonivaig, Laggan, Kingussie and Insh, OS1/17/44

This volume contains information on place names found in the parishes of Kilmonivaig, Laggan, Kingussie and Insh.

Ordnance Survey - Inverness county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Inverness, which is in the north of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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