Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Morven	an indefinite region	Groome
Morvern or Morven	a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Achleck	a rivulet with a picturesque waterfall	Groome
Achleck	rivulet with waterfall	Bartholomew
Airi-Innis	a lake	Groome
Airi-Innis	lake	Bartholomew
Aline, Loch	a hamlet and a sea-loch	Groome
Aline, Loch	hamlet and sea-loch	Bartholomew
Ben Eaddan	hill	Bartholomew
Beneaddan or Ben Yadain	a mountain	Groome
Bunavoulin	village	Bartholomew
Bunavoulin	a village	Groome
Carna	a small inhabited island	Groome
Carna	island	Bartholomew
Carn-na-Caillich	ancient tumulus	Bartholomew
Carn-na-Caillich	an ancient tumulus	Groome
Claggan	school	Bartholomew
Drimnin	seat	Bartholomew
Drimnin	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Fingal's Stair	flight of steps	Bartholomew
Friel-house	island	Bartholomew
Glas Bheinn (Glashven)	hill	Bartholomew
Glencripesdale House	seat	Bartholomew
Glendhu	the glen of the Black Water	Groome
Glen Dubh	glen	Bartholomew
Killundine	ancient castle	Bartholomew
Killundine	an old castle	Groome
Kinlochaline Castle	old tower	Bartholomew
Larachbeg		Bartholomew
Oransay	a rocky island	Groome
Oronsay	rocky island	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 Morvern 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	October 3rd to 8th, 1773: Coll	1
Samuel Johnson	Coll	1
Thomas Pennant	August 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll	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
Lochaline	0	2
Kingairloch	0	2
Strontian	0	2
Salen	0	2
Aros	0	2
Acharacle	0	3
Sunart	0	2
Scotstown	0	2
Duart	0	3
Lismore	0	4
Tobermory	17	2
Kinlochmoidart	0	2
Portramsay	0	2
Torosay	0	2
Ardnamurchan	0	2
Appin	0	2
Auchnacraig	0	2
Mull	7	3
Kilchoan	0	2
Loch Shiel	0	2