Loch Creran is the post glacial sea loch at the north west boundary of our parish
First Ordnance survey map https://maps.nls.uk/view/228775957
The link below is a lovely guide to the unique and fascinating marine environment of this very special loch.
https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/sites/default/files/planning-and-environment/Loch%20Creran%20Guide.pdf
1770 newspaper article concerning the oak woodlands being sold
In the 1880's William Anderson Smith was living at Rhugarbh and writing for the Glasgow Herald. He was a keen observer of the places around him, as well as an Oyster Culturalist, Journalist and Author, and these articles became 2 books
One is | Loch Creran: Notes from the West Highlands published in 1887 - link opens to the book in archive.org
images of the structures and burial ground Cladh Churiollan and Ardnacloich on the side of Loch Creran (J M Briscoe)In his popular account of life around Loch Creran in the late 19 th recorded seeing “ century William Anderson Smith (1887) bunches of serpulae tubes, from six inches to near a foot in height” growing amongst eelgrass ( Zostera marina ) at low tide. This is the earliest written record of tubeworm reefs in Loch Creran. A change in the ecology of the loch is indicated by the fact that nowhere today do the reefs exist in such shallow water, or in association with eelgrass. It is also uncertain whether tubeworm reef s have been present continuously in Loch Creran since Anderson Smith’s time.1
