Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Duirinish or Durinish	a parish	Groome
Durinish		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ardmore	a headland	Groome
Ascrib	a cluster of uninhabited islets	Groome
Ascrib Isles	a group of uninhabited islets	Bartholomew
Bay	hamlet and sea-loch	Bartholomew
Bay	a hamlet and a sea-loch	Groome
Candlestick	cavern, 100 ft. long and 50 ft. high, on coast	Bartholomew
Candlestick	a cavern	Groome
Colbost	hamlet	Bartholomew
Colbost	a hamlet	Groome
Dunvegan	a village, a castle, a sea-loch, and a headland	Groome
Dunvegan	village with inn, on loch of same name	Bartholomew
Edinbain	a hamlet	Groome
Edinbane	village with inn	Bartholomew
Fairy-Bridge	a place	Groome
Flashader	district	Bartholomew
Galtrigill	hamlet	Bartholomew
Glendale	a vale	Groome
Glendale	seat	Bartholomew
Greshornish, Loch	sea-loch	Bartholomew
Harlosh	hamlet	Bartholomew
Idrigill Point	headland	Bartholomew
Isay Island	island	Bartholomew
Kildonan	village	Bartholomew
Knockbreek	place with school	Bartholomew
Loanmore	place with school	Bartholomew
Lochbay	place with school	Bartholomew
Loch Bay	a bay	Groome
Loch Bay	sea-loch	Bartholomew
Macleod's Maidens	3 rocks	Bartholomew
Macleod's Maidens	three insulated basaltic pillars of Duirinish parish, Isle of Skye	Groome
Macleod's Tables	2 flat-topped hills	Bartholomew
Moonen Bay	bay	Bartholomew
Vattin Bridge	school	Bartholomew

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 Duirinish 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.
James Boswell	September 21st to 24th, 1773: Dunvegan to Talisker	1

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
Dunvegan	0	2
Bay	0	2
Edinbain	0	1
Bracadale	0	2
Uig	0	2
Snizort	1	4
Talisker	0	2
Carbost	0	2
Skye	0	2
Portree	16	2
Kilmuir	0	2
Borniskittag	0	2
Staffin	0	3
Raasay	0	2
Ronay	0	2
Coruisk	0	2
Rona	0	2
Lochmaddy	0	2
Soay	0	2
Scalpay	0	2