Muckairn was a separate Parish from circa 1578 until 1637. It was a United Parish with Ardchattan from 1637 to 1649. It was independent again from 1649 to 1661 when it was again united with Ardchattan. In 1829 it again became independent until it was linked with Dalavich & Kilchrenan in 1981.
The following description of life in Islay is taken from the book “Islay The Land of The Lordship” by David Caldwell published by Birlinn in 2008. Whilst, obviously, not immediately relevant to here it is an interesting reflection on life in Argyll of the time.
“After the acquisition of Islay by the Campbells of Cawdor in 1614, new blood was introduced to the island, most obviously in the form of Campbell lairds and tacksmen to supplant the Clan Donald and its supporters.” He later states:- “The majority of Ilich, … either farmed their lands as joint tenants of the laird or other gentlemen, or were subtenants or cottagers, working as servants or labourers, for other tenants. Some of these combined a trade or craft with the growing of a few crops and the raising of a few animals”.
At the top of the landholding tree would be a laird who would rarely be a lord. Below the laird were the “gentlemen” who “set their holdings to their own tenants. Many of them would have lived of their rents rather than undertake any extensive farming on their own behalf”.
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1606 Barcaldine Castle completed
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1618 In 1618 the parishes of Ardchattan and Muckairn were united.1
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1649 The Parishes of Ardchattan and Muckairn were severed again in 1649.
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1651 1 January 1651, Charles II was crowned King of Scots by the Marquis of Argyll at Scone.
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1654 Cromwells soldiers destroyed Ardchattan Priory - The Priory church was "brunt, plundered and destroyed be ane ptie of English Soulders [Covenanting soldiers from Dunstaffnage Castle]2
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1660 14 May The monarchy is restored in Scotland
1661 May - Archibald Campbell, 8th Earl of Argyll executed for high treason for actions against the Crown during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. / The Act Rescissory of 1661 brought Ardchattan and Muckairn parishes together again
1662 the Church of Scotland was restored as the national Church and all office-holders were required to renounced the Covenant.
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1664 Ardchattan parish reunited with Muckairn and remained so until 1846 when Muckairn was disjoined quoad sacra from Ardchattan (see footnote)
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1674 In 1654 a party of English soldiers under Captain Mutlo, Governor of Dunstaffnage Castle, burnt and plundered Ardchattan Priory,
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1689first Jacobite campaign : 27 July - The Battle of Killicrankie : Jacobite victory, death of leader Bonnie Dundee
1690 This decade was a time of poor weather and hence famine, the |"Ill Years" |Seven Ill Years | Famine in Scotland - the 'Ill Years' of the 1690s book — also this coming decade Scotland invested heavily in creating the trading colony of Darian that failed, leading to the vulnerability and the uncertainty that fueled the Jacobite movement
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1692 -13 February : Massacre of Glencoe.
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1695 - The Bank of Scotland is created by Act of Parliament.
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