gc1660, thanks a lot. The Eligmore reference comes from Pigots commercial directory 1837-8 for Argyll. I found it in Google books. I am researching a man named Neil Black who came to Australia, but who held lands in Glen Shira and I have seen docs in the SNA in Edinburgh where are mentioned Benbuy and Glen Shira, and farms at Ardentraive, Couston, Glenmassan, Glentarsan, and others. I am trying to identify these places on the current OS 25000 for the area, and on the old 25 inch and 6 inch maps available on line. When he was born in 1804 his father farmed Kilbridemore and Kilbridebeg near Glendaruel, a lease his brother Duncan inherited and which ended with a lot of nastiness between the family and Duncan Campbell in 1812. Campbell died soon after, and I have lost the certain track of DB. I am trying to reconstruct a 200 year old landscape at the Tacksman level, in other words who owned the land and who leased it, down through the layers of sublease to the farmers. Thanks again for your help.
