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Cairnmore House, Port Ellen. View from South West, before garden became established.
AG 6510
Description Cairnmore House, Port Ellen. View from South West, before garden became established.
Date c. 1900
Catalogue Number AG 6510
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 416758
Scope and Content South front of Carnmore House, Port Ellen, Islay Port Ellen was one of several planned villages established on Islay during the early 19th century as a herring fishery. Founded in 1821 by Walter Frederick Campbell, it was originally named Port Ellinor in honour of his wife. Fishing returns were initially disappointing, and not until the 1840s did the village become Islay's largest single community with a population of about 1,000. The population remained around this figure for the rest of the 19th century. Carnmore House is described in the Ordnance Survey Name Book as 'a substantial stone building'. It lies approximately one mile north east of the village of Port Ellen on land formerly belonging to John Ramsay of Kildalton. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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