dozens of villages, with names like grimsay, olistadh, torony, fornisaig, tockmal and brisabus/b were abandoned as the population steadily ebbed away. there are now probably fewer people resident on islay today than there were in 1726. ...
Geoff Simmons asked the question. A fuller answer is given here. I've been a bit distracted for the past couple of weeks, re-reading Robert Temples' The Sirius Mystery for the first time in a few years, especially the Oracle Centres ...
... Cademuir, Stobo, Broughton, Biggar, Thankerton, Lesmahagow, Ardeer on the west coast of the mainland, Goat Fell on Arran, between Carradale and Grogport on the Kintyre peninsula, and between Port Ellen and Risabus on Islay. ...
