Archaeology Notes

Event ID 676181

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN00NE 13 centred 097 090

Not to be confused with burgh and (present) village of Inveraray (centred NN 0953 0846), for which see NN00NE 24.

Inveraray is first mentioned in a charter of 1472, erecting it into a burgh of barony. It was erected into a royal burgh in 1648, when its territory extended from the Cromalt burn on the S to the green and yard dykes of the Duke of Argyll's estate, the lands of Kilmilieu and Auchareoch Burn respectively on the N, Loch Fyne on the E, and the Duke's park and the common moor on the W. In 1742, the old buildings were pulled down, and houses built by the Duke on the present site, then called Ardrainich.

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.

A pre-1742 plan in Argyll Estate Office shows the village centred at NN 097 090; landscape gardening and heavy vegetation obscure all traces.

Visited by OS (D W R) 7 March 1973.