Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Lochgoilhead. You may be able to find further references to Lochgoilhead in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Lochgoilhead	a village and a parish	Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Lochgoilhead.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ardgartan	a small low promontory	Groome
Ardkinglass	an estate, with a mansion, and with vestiges of an ancient castle	Groome
Ben-an-Lochain	a mountain	Groome
Ben Donich	a mountain	Groome
Cairndow	a hamlet	Groome
Carrick	an old forsaken castle	Groome
Drimsynie	seat	Bartholomew
Glencroe	an alpine glen	Groome
Goil	a fine sea-loch	Groome
Hell's Glen	a rugged, solitary glen	Groome

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Lochgoilhead within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
George Head	Up the West Highland Coast	2

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Croe	0	2
Ardgartan	0	2
Loch Long	0	2
Kilmorich	0	2
Cairndow	0	2
Arrochar	0	2
Strachur	0	3
Tarbet	0	2
Inveraray	15	2
Coulport	0	2
Firkin	0	3
Ardentinny	0	2
Cowall	0	2
Fruin	0	2
Shandon	0	2
Inversnaid	0	2
Rowardennan	0	2
Lomond	0	3
Clynder	0	2
Furnace	0	2