Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Skipness

Skipness, quoad sacra par. and fishing vil., Saddell and Skipness par., Argyllshire, on E. side of Kintyre - quoad sacra par., pop. 470; vil., on Skipness Bay, 12 miles S. of Tarbert; P.O., T.O.; the church is 2½ miles SW. of vil.; Skipness Castle, seat, is ½ mile NE. of vil.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "quoad sacra parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Skipness ScoP       Argyll ScoCnty
Place: Skipness

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