Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Tiree. You may be able to find further references to Tiree in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Tiree	island	Bartholomew
Tyree	an island	Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Tiree.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Scarnish	school	Bartholomew
Skerryvore Lighthouse		Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Tiree within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
James Boswell	October 3rd to 8th, 1773: Coll	2
James Boswell	October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull	2
James Boswell	September 14th to 20th, 1773: Dunvegan, Skye	1
James Boswell	September 21st to 24th, 1773: Dunvegan to Talisker	1
Samuel Johnson	Coll	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Coll	76	2
Cairn Na Burgh Beg	0	2
Staffa	12	2
Gometra	0	2
Iona	11	2
Kilninian	0	2
Ulva	0	2
Inchkenneth	0	2
Bunessan	0	3
Tobermory	17	2
Kilchoan	0	2
Kilvickeon	0	1
Muck	0	2
Kilfinichen	0	2
Mull	7	3
Aros	0	2
Ardnamurchan	0	2
Salen	0	2
Carsaig	0	2
Eigg	0	2