Place:


Isle Toll  Dumfries Shire

 

In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Isle Toll like this:

Isle-Toll, a place with a post office under Dumfries, in Kirkmahoe parish, Dumfriesshire, near the right bank of the Nith, 2½ miles SSE of Auldgirth. Isle or Isle Tower, near it, is a modern mansion, whose owner, Joseph Gillon-Fergusson, Esq. (b. 1848; suc. 1879), holds 1009 acres in the shire, valued at £1119 per annum.—Ord. ...


Sur., sh. 9, 1863. Issay, a fertile island (1 x 1/3 mile) of Duirinish parish, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, in Dunvegan Bay, opposite the middle of Vaternish. It is called also Ellan-Issa or the Island of Jesus.

The location is uncertain, but based on the descriptions given bu Bartholomew and Groome, i.e. on the main road near Isle Tower.

Isle Toll through time

Isle Toll is now part of Dumfries and Galloway district. Click here for graphs and data of how Dumfries and Galloway has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Isle Toll itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Isle Toll, in Dumfries and Galloway and Dumfries Shire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22167

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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