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Duror, Argyleshire

Historical Description

DUROR, a quoad sacra district, in the parish of Lismore and Appin, district of Lorn, county of Argyll, 6 miles (N. N. E.) from Appin House; containing 1692 inhabitants. This quoad sacra parish is situated on an arm of the sea, called the Linnhe loch, into which a portion of the land projects in a kind of promontory; on the north is Loch Leven, and on the south Loch Creran. It includes the district of Glencoe, is about twenty-eight miles in length, and averages about seven in breadth; but of this extensive area scarcely a twentieth part is under cultivation, the rest being chiefly pasturage for sheep and black-cattle, and very thinly inhabited, by shepherds. The greater number of the population are in Glencoe, where, and near the village, are considerable slate works and quarries; the material is of a blue colour, and much esteemed, and is exported in large quantities to Leith, England, and even America. The surface around Glencoe is in many places wild, mountainous, and romantic; and the vale is celebrated as the birth-place of Ossian, and for the cruel massacre of its unsuspecting inhabitants in 1691. At Ballichulish and Ardsheal are good mansions, the former rather modern, and the latter somewhat ancient. The district is in the presbytery of Lorn, synod of Argyll; the stipend of the minister is £120, with a manse, and a glebe of upwards of two acres: patron, the Crown. The church, built about 1826 by the parliamentary commissioners, and repaired in 1834, is a plain edifice containing accommodation for 323 persons. In Glencoe are a mission church, a place of worship for members of the Free Church, an episcopal chapel, and a Roman Catholic chapel. Two parochial schools are supported, in which English and Gaelic, and the first elements of education, are taught; the salaries of the masters respectively are £18 and £8, with about £22 and £10 in fees. A mineral spring here was used for medicinal purposes for some time, but it lately fell into disrepute, and is now quite neglected. See Lismore and Appin, and Glencoe.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, 1851 by Samuel Lewis
CountryScotland

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