Crò-Chinntàile
Kintail is a parish in the southwest of Ross-shire. It is bounded by Invernessshire, and by the parishes of Lochalsh and Glenshiel. (1867: The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, by John Marius Wilson).
Bundalloch, Dornie, Inverinate, Kintail
PRE-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
POST-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
The church of Kintail was dedicated to St Duthac. It was a commune kirk of the Cathedral of Ross. Within the bounds were a chapel of St Fillan at Cill Fhaolain, and a chapel of St Donan at Eilean Dhonain, near the head of Loch Alsh. At Dornie, in this parish, there is a mission chapel.
Disjoined Quoad Sacra Parishes:
Erchless. The parish of Erchless was disjoined from Kiltarlity, Kilmorack, and Kintail, and erected 17 March 1884.
Includes ministers, licentiates, assistants, readers, and clerks.
Kintail (QO)
Erchless (QS)
(1928: Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, by Hew Scott, D. D.)
Parish registers turned over to the Registrar-General, as a result of the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages (Scotland) Act of 1854. The letters B. D. and M. indicate Births (or Baptisms), Deaths (or Burials), and Marriages (or Proclamations of Banns) respectively. Numbers indicate separate volumes or books. Note: These records are by no means complete or without damage; consult the Detailed List of the Old Parochial Registers of Scotland (1872) to learn more about the condition of the records.
| OPR and RD Numbers | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Range | Name | Number | Type |
| 1776-1854 | Kintail | 72 | OPR |
| 1855-1967 | Kintail | 72 | RD |
| 1968-1971 | Loch Duich | 72 | RD |
| 1972-2006 | Loch Duich | 208 | RD |
| 2009 | Highland, Loch Duich | 208 | RD |
| 2026 | Highland Council; Loch Duich Community Council | ||
(2009: Parishes and Registration Districts of Scotland - Old and New, National Records of Scotland)
Local community councils (2026) are provided as a potential source of additional information for settlements within the original boundaries of the parish. (Source)
Statistics from informal and official censuses
Finlayson, Fraser, MacAulay, MacDonald, Mackenzie, MacLean, MacLennan, MacMillan, MacRae, Matheson
Note: Names appearing in research materials, other than censuses. Simple names (First name, surname only) have been omitted unless they appear associated with large properties. All women's names, and men's names with occupations, military ranks, or peerage titles are included.
By the Reverend Mr Roderick Morison.
"The natives of Kintail are tall, robust, and well-limbed; able to endure much cold and fatigue; generous and hospitable; and if they are sometimes peevish to strangers, it is by reason of encroachments on their grazings and hill pasture. This peculiarly arises from their being wholly devoted to the pastoral life, without intermeddling with any other branch of manufacture or trade. In the last century, or rather later, the inhabitants of Kintail wore nothing but the woollen manufactures of the place; but at present, every individual purchases linen, and affect as much neatness in dress as any of their neighbours. The imports are meal, whisky, linen, tanned leather, fir-planks, and shelly sand for manure. The exports are, black-cattle, horses, furs, kelp, tallow, butter, and cheese."
(This section contains excerpts, at times restructured or paraphrased, from an article appearing in Statistical Account of Scotland, Sir John Sinclair, 1791-1799)
Primary Sources:
Statistical Account of Scotland (1791-1799), Volume 6, p. 242
New Statistical Account of Scotland (1834-1845), Volume 14, Section II, p. 170
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