Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Barra or Barray	an island and an insular parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Berneray	island	Bartholomew
Craigston	place with school	Bartholomew
Creanwall Isles	2 islets	Bartholomew
Fladda	island	Bartholomew
Fladda	a small island	Groome
Fuda	a small fertile island	Groome
Fuda (or Fuday)	island	Bartholomew
Gighay	a small pastoral island	Groome
Hellisay	island	Bartholomew
Lingay	island	Bartholomew
Lingingay	an islet	Groome
Mingala	an island	Groome
Mingalay Island	island	Bartholomew
Muldoanich	islet	Bartholomew
Pabbay	island	Bartholomew
Pabbay	an island	Groome
Sanderay	island	Bartholomew
Vatersay or Watersay	an island	Groome
Watersay (or Vatersay)	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 Barra 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	September 14th to 20th, 1773: Dunvegan, Skye	2
James Boswell	September 21st to 24th, 1773: Dunvegan to Talisker	2
James Boswell	September 25th to October 2nd, 1773: South east Skye	2
Samuel Johnson	Coll	2
Samuel Johnson	Ostig, and Skye in general	1
Samuel Johnson	Reasons for poverty and emigration	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
Vatersay	0	3
Sanderay	0	2
Eriska	0	2
Mingulay	0	2
Berneray	0	2
Lochboisdale	0	2
South Uist	1	2
Howmore	0	2
Benbecula	0	2
Nunton	0	2
Canna	0	2
Sanday	0	2
Ronay	0	2
Carinish	0	2
Tiree	7	3
Coll	76	2
Rhum	0	2
Small Isles	0	2
North Uist	0	2
Talisker	0	2