Native Woodlands

A lot to learn about our native woodlands

History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland 1500-1920
By T. C. Smout
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K5kkDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA341
this is from page 361

around the top of Loch Etive, the name Allt Ghiusachan indicates another lost pinewood, perhaps already gone by the time the Irish arrived, as they were mentioned only as cutting the deciduous trees in the township of Inverghiusachan.
At Barrs on the opposite bank, where the Irish also cut only deciduous trees, and at Allt Mheuranby near Kinlochetive, where again they had the same rights, Steven and Carlisle found a few trees of native pine that also seemed to indicate former lost woods. Traces of native pine have recently been found in Glen Kinglass itself.
Some light on the circumstances in this area comes from a memorandum of 1726 from the tacksman of Glennoe, former woodkeeper of Loch Etive, recently dismissed and replaced by another at the behest of the estate commissioners. It reveals a state bordering on anarchy, but involving local people and not the Irish.
"Glenno does not deny but he has frequently convertit to his own use some of the earle's timber in Lochetve par'larly at the tyme that the woods of both Barrs and Glenno were acutting and in places of justifying himslef for what he has done he is hartily sory that he did not more since where he slew his tens other slew thair thousands par'larly Inveraw who as its notterly known who cutt doune the earle's green woods at Lochetive for their constant fyre wood."

He went on to say that more pine and oak had been carried from Loch Etive under pretence of repairing the mills of Netherlorn than all the mills were worth, and that the pine of the contraverted spott in Glenkellen' had been cut by the miller of Netherlorn and Robert Campbell of Kentrae "and that for anything that ever you know" . it was not a good defence of his stewardship of the woods of Loch Etive, but it was very revealing.


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