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avvartich when it should be biiilt.' In 1531 Archibald Earl of Argyle, at the request of King
James V., resigned his office of chamberlain of Kintyre.'- In 1536 the lands and lordship of
Kintyre South and North were part of the crown lands in the lordship of the Isles.^ In 1539
Alane M'Clane, brother of Hector M'Clane of Dowart, was ajipointed by Kuig James V. ' Tos-
soclidoir of all Kintyre fra Mule to Altasynnoch.''' In 1540 the lands of both Kintyi-es, along
with the lordship of the Isles, were inalienably annexed to the crowu.^ At the same time the
castle of Dunavertich appears to have been occupied by a royal garrison.'' In 1541 there was
paid from the king's treasury the sum of £20 ' to twa guuuaris of the castell of Dunavertiche for
thair feis this yere to cum.''
In the year 1542 NeOl M'NeiU, natural son of the deceased Neill M'Neill of Geya, was
appointed by King James V. to the office of Tossochdoir of all Kintire within the bounds above
mentioned.' In the same year King James V., for the good service rendered to him by
Archibald Earl of Argyle in France and in Scotland in resisting his old enemies of England,
granted to Archibald Campbell his son, among other offices, those of justiciar, sheriff, coroner,
and chamberlain of the lordsliips of Knapdalis and Kyntyris, resigned by the Earl." In 1543
Queen Mary granted to Earl Archibald her lands of South Kyntire and North Kyntire, with the
keeping of the castle of Dunavertie, for twelve years. ^^ In 1545 Queen Mary, for the good
service done in her minority by Jame.s MakconnyU of Dunnyveyg and Grlennys, especially in
opposing the English the ancient enemies of the kingdom, granted to him the barony of Bar in
North Kintyre, with remainder successively to his brothers Angus, Colin, Charles, Alexander,
and Donald Gorme M'Connyll, and to his own male heirs whomsoever.^! This grant included,
besides various lands in the Isles and other parts of Argyle, the following lands in South and
North Kintyre : — four marldands of the Mule of Kintyre, two marks of Karschaych, twenty
shillings of Glennedull, one mark of Auchenasawile, half a mark of Iiyall, half a mark of f or-
leyne, three marks of Carryne, one mark of GlenmowiU, two marks of Bargadullmoir, four marks
eight shillings and fourpence of CoUynglongfort, Ballevenane, and Dalcrownacht, two marks of
Leupenstrath, one mark of Mukloch, five shillings of Dalsmyrrell and Langnodaf, two marks of
Corseyne and Barfarna, one mark of AraduU, one mark of Sokach, one mark of Gartnagarach,
twenty shillings of Karranemoir, two marks of lulcattane and Crysloch, four marks of Machii-
moir, two marks of Ramwllis, two marks of Edyu, two marks of Faehog, one mark of Karrenbeg,
one mark of Knokstapill, five marks and a half of Polmullone, three marks of Glenhervve, five
marks of Kildawe, two marks of Glenmukloch, three marks of Kanlooh, one mark of Kilmoir,
' Reg. Mag. Sig., lib. xxiii. no. 44. Argyle Char- ^ Acta Pari. Scot., vol. ii. p. 405. Reg. Mag. Sig.,
ters. lib. xxviii. no. 14!!.
'' Acta Dom. Cone, vol. xlii. fol. 185. ^ Gregory's Highlands and Isles, p. 149.
' Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. x. fol. 140. ' Pitcairu's Crim. Trials, vol. i. p. 311;*.
' Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xiii. fol. 17. ' Altasynnoch ' " Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xvi. fol. 1.
appears to be the ' Alddounsyndach' of Blaeu, and is '■' Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xvi. fol. G3. Reg. Mag. Sig.,
situated in the parish of Kilcalmonell or barony of Skip- lib. xxviii. no. 431.
inche, but not marked in any modern map. Old na '" Reg. Sec. Sig., vol. xvii. fol. 53. Argyle Inventory.
Sionnach is interpreted by Sir Walter Scott ' the fox- " R^g. Mag. Sig., lib. xxix. no. 118. Reg. Sec. Sig.,
burn brook." See Lords of the Isles, note C. vol. xix. S. 1-5, IG.