Snizort, Inverness Shire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Snizort parish and hamlet Bartholomew
Snizort a parish Groome
Snizort, Loch sea-loch Bartholomew
Snizort, Loch a sea-loch Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Altin glen Bartholomew
Altin or Haltin a glen Groome
Bernisdale a hamlet, with a public school Groome
Bernisdale hamlet Bartholomew
Borve a district Groome
Glen Haultin glen Bartholomew
Glenhinisdale or Glenhinistil a glen, with a small village Groome
Glenhinnisdal village Bartholomew
Glen Hinnisdal glen Bartholomew
Kensaleyre place with school Bartholomew
Skeabost hamlet Bartholomew
Steinscholl a hamlet Groome
Storr, The mountain Bartholomew
Uig a village Groome
Uig village 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 Snizort 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 September 8th to 12th, 1773: Raasay; meeting with Flora McDonald 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 Historical Gazetteer
Uig 0 2
Staffin 0 3
Edinbain 0 1
Kilmuir 0 2
Borniskittag 0 2
Portree 16 2
Bay 0 2
Rona 3 2
Skye 141 2
Raasay 26 2
Duirinish 1 3
Dunvegan 12 2
Bracadale 0 2
Carbost 0 2
Applecross 1 2
Talisker 5 2
Scalpay 1 2
Shieldaig 0 2
Coruisk 0 2
Eilean An Tighe 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Snizort. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
LOCH SNIZORT John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
SNIZORT John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
SNIZORT LOCH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.