Kenmore, Perthshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kenmore parish Bartholomew
Kenmore a village and a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Acharn a village and a burn Groome
Acharn village and stream Bartholomew
Ardtalnaig a hamlet Groome
Ardtalnaig hamlet Bartholomew
Balloch an old castle Groome
Balloch remnants of old castle Bartholomew
Bridgend or Kendrochad a hamlet Groome
Bridgend, or Kendrochad village Bartholomew
Carie a hamlet Groome
Croftmartaig hamlet Bartholomew
Cuiltrannich a hamlet Groome
Kiltyrie school Bartholomew
Lawers place with ferry Bartholomew
Lawers a hamlet Groome
Shian hamlet Bartholomew
Stronfearnan a village Groome
Taymouth Castle the seat Groome
Taymouth Castle seat 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 Kenmore 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.
Thomas Pennant July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire 3

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
Taymouth 6 2
Acharn 0 2
Fortingall 2 2
Dull 0 2
Garth Castle 1 2
Castle Menzies 1 2
Weem 0 2
Aberfeldy 1 2
Loch Tay 9 1
Schiehallion 1 1
Foss 0 2
Ardeonaig 0 2
Tummel 6 2
Amulree 0 2
Dunalastair 1 2
Glen Lyon 3 2
Kinloch Rannoch 0 2
Breadalbane 11 2
Faskally 1 2
Logierait 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CEAN MHOIRE F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
KENMORE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
KINMORE Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).

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.