Glenure, a glen in Ardchattan parish, Argyllshire, descending 3¹/8 miles west-north-westward to Glen Creran at a point 3¾ miles NE of the head of Loch Creran. Its upper part exhibits sterile grandeur. Its lower part contains Glenure House, which, occupied now by a farmer, with Barcaldine still gives designation to Sir Duncan Alexander Dundas Campbell, third Bart. since 1831 (b. 1856; suc. 1880).—Ord. Sur., sh 53, 1877.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)