DETAILED NOTES ON ISLAY-GAELIC

A cottage on Islay from Thomas Pennant's A Tour in Scotland and Voyage for the Hebrides, revealed in 1774. At the start from the 18th century A great deal of the population of Argyll was being uncovered dispersed in small clachans of farming families[108] and only two villages of any size, Killarow close to Bridgend and Lagavulin, existed on Islay