Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Portree	a parish with a town	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Archasig Haven	small harbour	Bartholomew
Archasig-Haven	a small harbour	Groome
Belmeanach	a bay	Groome
Belmeanach	bay	Bartholomew
Bendeanavaig	a mountain	Groome
Ben Lea	a hill	Groome
Braes	district	Bartholomew
Braes	a remote district of Portree parish	Groome
Brochel	a group of dilapidated strong ancient buildings	Groome
Camisinivaig	village and harbour	Bartholomew
Camistinavaig	a village and bay	Groome
Fad	a lake	Groome
Fladda	island	Bartholomew
Fladda	an island	Groome
Florida	island	Bartholomew
Gedintailler	village	Bartholomew
Glamaig or Ben Glamaig	a conical mountain	Groome
Glenmore	a village	Groome
Glenmore	village	Bartholomew
Leathan, Loch		Bartholomew
Raasay	island	Bartholomew
Raasay	an island	Groome
Rona	an island	Groome
Sconcer	hamlet	Bartholomew
The Braes	village	Bartholomew
Torran	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 Portree 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 13th, 1773: Bonnie Prince Charlie's Escape	8
James Boswell	September 8th to 12th, 1773: Raasay; meeting with Flora McDonald	3
Samuel Johnson	Raasay, Portree and Dunvegan	2
James Boswell	September 14th to 20th, 1773: Dunvegan, Skye	1
James Boswell	September 21st to 24th, 1773: Dunvegan to Talisker	1
James Boswell	September 25th to October 2nd, 1773: South east Skye	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
Skye	0	2
Raasay	0	2
Bracadale	0	2
Edinbain	0	1
Carbost	0	2
Snizort	1	4
Scalpay	0	2
Rona	0	2
Talisker	0	2
Uig	0	2
Applecross	1	2
Coruisk	0	2
Dunvegan	0	2
Duirinish	1	3
Bay	0	2
Staffin	0	3
Strath	0	2
Broadford	0	2
Kilmuir	0	2
Soay	0	2