This site will be populated, in years to come, with the information contributed to The Ardchattan Forum which is an area where every snippet, image, memory, archive, question, fact and detail about the parish can be recorded for everyone to share and enjoy.
Its a very easy way for anyone to add their contributions.
To go to the section in the forum relating to your area of interest simply click on the F beside it.
This information will be collated here as time goes by in a more comprehensive format and searchable databases of censuses, birth, marriage, death and any other details on individuals, to tell the story of the parish from the Big Bang to the Present Day - please visit the forum for the more interesting stuff for now.

A very simplified timeline of the area - click on each to follow the trails or click on the F to go direct to the appropriate area of the forum. What happened here - when? -:- F From the big bang to the Ice age: -:- F raised beach, volcanoes, geology, Ice Age to Early Man: -:- F recolonisation of the populations of flora, fauna and Man Early Man: -:- F start of human civilisation Bronze age:-:- F 2000 AD - field boundaries, cairns, standing stones, Iceland eruption Iron Age:-:- F 500 BC - 800 AD - duns, farming, trading Picts and Celts:-:- F Beregonium, Uisnach, Deirdre, Alba Norse influence:-:- F The Vikings, Norse settlement, The Establishment of Clans:-:- F Somerled to the Campbells of Lochnell and Ardchattan [Argyll] and of Barcaldine, [Breadalbane] Bruce to the Jacobites:-:- F upheaval and discord 1700's: -:- F Roy map 1755, Statistical account 1800's : -:- F Census's 1841 - 1891, Statistical account, potato famine, clearances, Old parish records 1788 - 1855, Birth Marriage and Death records 1855 - 1900, Grave inscriptions 1900's -:- F Census 1901, Grave inscriptions, BMD records, WWI and II, railway, village     A page of Books relating to the Area : topics : LORN | ARGYLL | HIGHLANDS | PREHISTORY | CLANS AND FAMILIES | RAILWAYS, SEA etc | LITERATURE | TRAVELLING THE AREA | AGRICULTURE & INDUSTRY | PHOTOGRAPHY | MILITARY | GEOLOGY & ECOLOGY   If you would like to make a Donation to enable us to buy more BMD and census records, which we have permission to publish please click here.

Places of the area - click on each to find out its history ARDCHATTAN, the Parish -:- F Glenure, Taraphocain, Baleveolan, Druimavuic : -:- F :- Dallachoilish & south Creagan : -:- F Barcaldine House -:- F Achinreir, -:- F    Achacha : -:- F Dalrannoch and Barcaldine Mill : -:- F Rhugarbh: -:- F Ferlochan :- F Culcharran : - F Letterwalton, :- F :- Dalintober, F Barcaldine Castle :- F Seabank, South Shian :- F Balure of Shian, :- F Isle of Eriska :- F Ardentinny, Fuararchy :- F Balure, Lochnell, :- F Shenavallie :- F Kinloch, :- F Moss Croft & Achnamonie : F Baravullin, Kintaline :- F Keil / Kiel Crofts :- F Selma :- F The modern Village :- F Craigneuk, Ledaig: north and south :- F North Connel: Black Crofts, Lochan-na-beithe : F Moss of Achnacree : F Dalvuie, Moss Cottage, Cairnbaan, : F Achnacree More, Beag, Bay : F Achnaba, Ardachy & Inion : F Ardchattan, Baile Mhaodain : F Inveresragan, Blarcreen, Glen Salach : F Ardchattan School, Bonawe village : F Bonawe Quarries, Eilean Duirinnis : F Craigs, Cadderlie, Dail, Barrs : F River Etive, Glenkinglass, Inverawe : F