Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Stronvar

Stronvar, a mansion in Balquhidder parish, Perthshire, near the southern shore and the- foot of Loch Voil, 5½ miles SW of Lochearnhead. It is a Scottish Baronial edifice, built in 1850 from designs by the late David Bryce, R.S.A. Its owner, David Carnegie, Esq. (b. 1813), holds 22, 205 acres in the shire, valued at £3558 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 46, 1872.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Balquhidder ScoP       Perthshire ScoCnty

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