Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Sleat	a parish	Groome
Sleat, Sound of	a belt of sea	Groome
Sleat, Sound of		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Aird	hamlet	Bartholomew
Aird	a hamlet, with a public school	Groome
Armadale Castle	seat	Bartholomew
Armadale Castle	the seat	Groome
Dunscaith	a ruined baronial fortalice	Groome
Dunscaith	ruined castle	Bartholomew
Ferrindonald	school	Bartholomew
Isle Ornsay	island and village	Bartholomew
Isle Ornsay	a village and an islet	Groome
Knock Castle	ruin	Bartholomew
Lochindaal	a bay	Groome
Tarseabhaig	school	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 Sleat 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	Sept. 1st to 7th, 1773: Glen Moriston to Skye	4
James Boswell	September 25th to October 2nd, 1773: South east Skye	4
James Boswell	October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull	2
James Boswell	September 8th to 12th, 1773: Raasay; meeting with Flora McDonald	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
Isle Ornsay	0	2
Dunscaith	0	2
Armadale	0	2
Ardavasar	0	2
Aird	0	2
Strath	0	2
Broadford	0	2
Inverie	0	2
Knoydart	0	2
Glenelg	9	2
Kyleakin	0	2
Bernera Barracks	0	1
Coruisk	0	2
Scalpay	0	2
Soay	0	2
Barrisdale	0	1
Morar	0	2
Balmacarra	0	2
Arisaig	0	2
Plockton	0	2