Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Jura	an island and a parish	Groome
Jura, Sound of		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Balnahuaigh	islet	Bartholomew
Garvelloch	a group of four pastoral islets	Groome
Garvelloch Isles		Bartholomew
Lunga	an island	Groome
Lunga	island	Bartholomew
Pladda	island	Bartholomew
Scarba	island	Bartholomew
Skervuile	island	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 Jura 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.
George Head	Up the West Highland Coast	2

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
Eilean Mor	0	2
Keills	0	2
Caolisport	0	3
North Knapdale	0	2
Oransay	0	3
Colonsay	0	2
Kilberry	0	2
Corryvreckan	1	2
Kilmeny	0	2
South Knapdale	0	2
Knapdale	0	2
Crinan	1	2
Scarba	1	2
Ardpatrick	0	2
Ardrishaig	0	2
Bridgend	0	2
Killarrow	0	3
Lunga	0	2
Garvellachs	0	3
Lochgilphead	0	2