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Place name County Entry Source Argyllshire Argyll Kilchurn, Artornish, Mingarry, Skipness, and Carrick; and foundations of others are at Dunoon, Ardkinglass, and some other places. See J. Denholm Groome Castle Kilchurn Argyll Kilchurn , ruined stronghold, first of the Macgregors and then of the Campbells, Glenorchy par., Argyllshire, on island in Loch Awe, 2½ miles Bartholomew Fraoch Eilean Argyll island, in Loch Awe, Argyllshire, 2½ miles SW. of Kilchurn Castle; has ruins of a fortalice of the Macnaughtons. Bartholomew Fraoch Eilean Argyll Kilchurn Castle and ½ mile NE of Inishail. The hero Fraoch, going to gather its serpent-guarded apples, which the fair Groome Glenorchy and Innishail Argyll Kilchurn Castle. Through Loch Awe our stream steals 4¾ miles south-westward and west-north-westward; and out of Loch Groome Glenstrae Argyll Kilchurn Castle. Down to 1604 it was the principal fastness of the clan Macgregor, who held it as vassals of the Earl Groome Inishail Argyll with old ecclesiastical ruins and cemetery, in Loch Awe, Argyllshire, 2½ miles SW. of Kilchurn Castle. See GLENORCHY AND INISHAIL. Bartholomew Innischonian Argyll Innischonian , island, at NE. end of Loch Awe, Argyllshire, 1¾ mile SW. of Kilchurn Castle. Bartholomew Kilchurn Castle Argyll Kilchurn Castle, a ruined stronghold in Glenorchy parish, Argyllshire, on a rocky elevation, alternately peniusula and island, at the influx Groome Kilchurn Castle Argyll Kilchurn Castle , at NE. end of Loch Awe, Argyllshire, 2½ miles W. of Dalmally; was founded in 1440 by Sir Colin Bartholomew Lorn Argyll Kilchurn. The Firth of Lorn extends southward from the junction of Loch Linnhe and the Sound of Mull; washes all the W coast Groome Orchy Argyll
PerthshireKilchurn Castle-rapidly and turbulently along the valley of Glenorchy proper, but tranquilly and sluggishly along the-vale of Dalmally Groome Taymouth Castle Perthshire annum. Ord. Sur., sh. 55, 1869. See Breadalbane, Kilchurn Castle, Glencoe, and chap. xxxii. of T. Hunter's Woods and Estates of Perthshire (Perth, 1883). Groome
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