Papers on Islands off Mull
- Reference:GB 1798 ISLANDS
- Dates of Creation:1800s - ongoing
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:Approx 40 items
Scope and Content
There are at least 20 islands lying off Mull or associated with it. Links with the Small Isles (Muck, Rum, Eigg) and with Coll and Tiree were much closer in the past than they are today. Ulva and Staffa have archives of their own but there is a scattering of information here and throughout the archive about the smaller islands such as the Treshnish Islands where the naturalist Frank Fraser Darling spent time studying seals (Library 2.A-8), Gometra which is almost joined to Ulva, the barren Eorsa, Inch Kenneth, which was once owned by the Mitford’s and has a fine collection of carved stone, Little Colonsay where the last chief of Macquarrie spent his final years, Erraid, where the building stones for the Skerryvore lighthouse were assembled and which features in Stevenson’s “Kidnapped” and tiny Frank Lockwood’s island, associated with the defence lawyer in the trial of Oscar Wilde.
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