Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Killin	a village and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Achline or Auchlyne	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Almond	a river	Groome
Ardeonaig	a hamlet	Groome
Ardeonaig	hamlet	Bartholomew
Benmore	a mountain	Groome
Ben More	mountain	Bartholomew
Clifton	village	Bartholomew
Clifton	a village	Groome
Crianlarich	a hamlet	Groome
Dalry, Dalrigh, or Dalree	a place	Groome
Dochart	river	Bartholomew
Dochart	a loch, a river, and a glen	Groome
Fillan	a stream	Groome
Finlarig	a picturesque ruined castle	Groome
Glendochart	school	Bartholomew
Inverardran	seat	Bartholomew
Lochdochart Lodge	seat	Bartholomew
Lochdochart Lodge	a modern mansion	Groome
Luib	railway station	Bartholomew
Stob Garbh	mountain	Bartholomew
Strathfillan	school	Bartholomew
Strath Fillan	valley	Bartholomew
Tyndrum	village with railway station and hotel	Bartholomew
Tyndrum	a small post-office village	Groome

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 Killin 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.
Thomas Pennant	July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire	1
Thomas Pennant	August 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll	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
Breadalbane	0	2
Lochearnhead	0	2
Dochart	0	2
Ardeonaig	0	2
Loch Earn	0	1
Balquhidder	0	2
Loch Tay	0	1
St Fillans	0	3
Glen Lyon	0	2
Crianlarich	0	2
Acharn	0	2
Fortingall	0	2
Comrie	0	3
Kenmore	0	2
Tyndrum	0	2
Rannoch	0	2
Beinn Dorain	0	2
Taymouth	0	2
Killichonan	0	2
Callander	1	3