The Archive has a good collection of books that visitors can study.
Here is our book list - we always welcome any further donations
……. recommended research books (new page)
Here is a list of some of the books that we hold digitally and links to locations online that you can read them
- Benderloch William Anderson Smith (and HERE it is on the web archive, various options to download)
- Loch Creran: Notes from the West Highlands, William Anderson Smith, published in 1887
- Biographia Philsophica
- Archibald Campbell of Inveraray : Records of Argyll
- Places of Argyll - H Cameron Gillies
- Loch Etive and the Sons of Uisnach - R. Angus Smith (1895)
- Loch Etive and the Sons of Uisnach - R. Angus Smith (1895) page 193 Keills Connel Cairns Selma Ledaig
- Deirdre and The Lay of the Children of Uisne translated by Alexander Carmichael 1914
- [https://ia800909.us.archive.org/20/items/ancientscottishl00munruoft/ancientscottishl00munruoft.pdf
- http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usebooks/wordsworth-scotland/18.html Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland 1803, by Dorothy Wordsworth 2 September 1803: Taynuilt, Ballachulish
- https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/31666/pg31666-images.html RECREATIONS OF CHRISTOPHER NORTH, VOLUME 1
- Post Office Directory Scotland 1862 Bonaw
- This is not yet in our library but some of it is online To the Highlands in 1786: The Inquisitive Journey of a Young French Aristocrat - evocative description of Bonawe and Etive
The Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments, Volume I (of 2), Edited by Sir John Scott Keltie 1840-1927
The Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments, Volume 2 (of 2), Edited by Sir John Scott Keltie 1840-1927
Terry Donovan Loch Creran 1902 Shooting and salmon fishing and Highland Sport - Grimble - p53 Kilmaronaig and Lochnell
more books as pdfs to sort out. in Ardchattan catalogue
- Drummers Luck
- Tait's Edinburgh Magazine 1849
- John Splendid Tale of Poor Gentleman little Wars of Lorn_files
- Instructions to a Son Argyll 1743
- Highland Schottische
- Scottish Exodus Travels - James Hunter
- The Highlands - Ian Finlay
- Alexander Campbell Fraser - pdf in catalogue
- Lineage of Invernahyle Appin, including marriages into Ardchattan families
History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland 1500-1920 By T. C. Smout has lots of references to the woodlands of Loch Etive and Glenorchy. the google books is not complete but will be useful for searching with the book in hand
Settlements of scotch highlanders in America
The minute book of the Lismore Agricultural society by Robert Hay
- Lismore Robert Hay
- History of Scotland by Buchanan
- [https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn23/1265/8639/126586391.23.pdf] page 153 starts Pocock travels in Ardchattan - Scottish history society - travels of Pococke 1747, 1750,1760 with 1887 references
- West Coast directory for 1883-84 https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn23/8654/86547121.23.pdf
- ONLINE BOOK 'Argyll Estate Instructions, 1771-1805', Mull Morvern Tiree edited by E.R.Cregeen, Scottish History Society, 1964, fourth series
- Selections from the family papers of the Mackays of Bighouse, consisting mainly of letters addressed to John Campbell of Barcaldine, sometime one of the government factors on the forfeited estates after the '45
- Nether Lorn and its Neighbourhood
- Highland Papers book 1934 inc Appin Murder
- Survivals in beliefs amongst the Celts .. mentions Dalvuie burial ground and well
- 1808 The Scotch Itinery, Containing the Roads Through Scotland, p42 - includes details of the roads through the parish.
- ["https://redbookofscotland.co.uk The Red Book of Scotland is a series of nine volumes of genealogical accounts of many of Scotland's principal families, based on evidence-based research and primary source records.]
This is the Ardchattan Parish Book published by the Parish Church and still for sale, full of great images and local reminiscences.
Here are some books we would like to have (do you have any suggestions ?
- Scottish Highlanders on the Eve of the Great Migration, 1725-1775: The People of Argyll By David Dobson (to be searched for Ardchattan folk)
- Bonawe Iron Furnace, Author: Geoffrey D Hay : ISBN: 1903570069 : SKU: GOR005117458
- Scottish Elites T.M. Devine (Edinburgh, 1994) includes A.I. Machines, 'Land
ownership, Land Use and Elite Enterprise in Scottish Gaeldom from Clanship to Clearance
in Argyllshire, 1688-1858.
- The Hebrid Isles: Wanderings in the Land of Lorne and the Outer Hebrides Buchanan.. so far only found reprint on Amazon
- J & A Gardner & Co Ltd. : shipowners and quarrymasters
Celtic myths and legends - poetry and romance - Charles Squire
Here are also books to be harvest from google books and other online locations
Journeying in MacDougall Country by Walter Macdougall
A History of the Clan Campbell: From origins to Flodden, Volume 1 by Alastair Campbell
Saint Modan of Rosneath a Fragment of Scottish Hagiology Robert Story : A book from 1877 about St Modan .. of Ardchattan, (except he is not, because our Balevaodan is for St Baetan / Baodan, !! ) but it has some great legends and stories of the area.
History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1600 to 1800
Scottish History Society publications at the National Library of Scotland are a valuable resource for anyone interested in Scottish history. including A List of Persons Concerned in the Rebellion and Prisoners of the ‘45
Forgotten books
http://www.forgottenbooks.com/search?q=argyll&t=books
The House of Argyll and the Collateral Branches of the Clan Campbell
Place names of Argyll H. Cameron Gillies
Other online books
Highland Papers includes Witchcraft in Bute and EXTRACT FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF A JUSTICE COURT HET.D AT INVERARAY TOLBOOTH, 27 October 1677, by Mr. John Campbell of Moy, Justice Deput of Argyll, by COMMAND OF ARCHIBALD 9TH EaRL OF ARGYLL involving Lochnell, cow stolen, Glentendill
Volume 1 - Argyll Estate instructions: Mull, Morvern, Tiree 1771-1805
