DETAILS, FICTION AND ISLAY-GAELIC

A cottage on Islay from Thomas Pennant's A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, published in 1774. At the start of the 18th century A great deal of the populace of Argyll was to become found dispersed in compact clachans of farming people[108] and only two villages of any dimension, Killarow around Bridgend and Lagavulin, existed on Islay a