Kingarth, Buteshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kingarth parish Bartholomew
Kingarth a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Ascog village, seat, bay, and lake Bartholomew
Blane's Chapel, St an ancient ecclesiastical ruin Groome
Devil's Cauldron an ancient circular structure Groome
Kerrycroy village Bartholomew
Kerrycroy a small neat village Groome
Kilchattan a village and a bay Groome
Kilchattan Bay village with pier Bartholomew
Mount Stuart seat Bartholomew
Mount-Stuart a seat Groome

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Kilchattan 0 2
Mountstuart 0 2
Millport 0 2
Ascog 0 2
Little Cumbrae 0 2
Cumbrae 0 3
Bute 0 2
Rothesay 3 2
Hunterston 0 2
Largs 2 2
Port Bannatyne 0 3
Fairlie 0 2
North Bute 0 2
West Kilbride 0 3
Corrie 0 2
Ardlamont 1 4
Inellan 0 2
Skelmorlie 1 2
Lochranza 0 2
Inverkip 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
KINGARTH 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.