INVER, village on right side of the Tay, opposite Dunkeld, Perthshire.
INVER, village on Dornoch Firth, in Tain parish, Ross-shire. It has a public school with about 81 scholars. Pop. 359.
INVER, Ross-shire.
INVERALLAN, ancient parish annexed to Cromdale, but now forming a quoad sacra parish, on the Spey, at Grantown, Elginshire. Pop. 2497.
INVERALLOCHY, fishing village and quoad sacra parish on north-east coast of Aberdeenshire. The village lies about 3| miles south-east of Fraserburgh ; has a large public school ; and adjoins an old castle of the Comyns. Pop. of the village, 741 ; of the quoad sacra parish, 1577.
INVERAMSAY, railway station, 20J miles north-west of Aberdeen.
INVERAN, hamlet, 4J miles north-west of Bonar-Bridge, in Sutherland. It has a post office designated of Sutherland shire.
INVERARDRAN, seat near head of Glendochart, Perthshire.
INVERARITY, parish, with church about 4 miles south of Forfar. It contains Kincaldrum post office under Forfar, measures about 4J miles by 4^, and com-prises 9583 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 12,245. Pop. 862. The surface includes a vale along Arity rivulet; consists chiefly of hills ; and, to about two-thirds of its extent, is arable. The seats are Fotheringham and Kincaldrum ; and the antiquities are several tumuli and remains of a Roman camp. The public school has capacity for 120 scholars.
INVERARNAN, hotel in foot of Glenfalloch, near head of Loch Lomond.
INVERARY, town, ducal mansion, and parish in east centre of Argyleshire. The town stands on west side of Loch Fyne, 30 miles by shortest route north-west of Greenock ; succeeded a previous town of 14th century, situated on different ground, and erased about 1745 ; ranks as the capital of Argyleshire, a seat of justiciary courts, and a royal burgh, uniting with Oban, Campbelton, Ayr, and Irvine in sending a member to Parliament; commands, for tourists, a great extent of rich surrounding scenery ; consists chiefly of large, well-built houses ; and has a head post office with all departments, 2 banking offices, 2 hotels, a steamboat quay, a court-house, a beautiful ancient stone cross, Established, Free, and United Presbyterian churches, and 2 public schools. Real property in 1880-81, 3385. Pop. 864. The ducal mansion, Inverary Castle, is the chief seat of the Duke of Argyle ; stands on Aray rivulet, a little north of the town ; succeeded a previous castle on another site, described in Sir Walter's Scott's Legend of Montrose, and taken down about 1810 ; was erected in 1745-50 ; suffered damage by fire in 1877 to the value of about 17,500 ; underwent complete restoration before April 1880 ; is a spacious quadrangular structure, with towers and surmounting pavilion ; and has very extensive and strikingly picturesque grounds. The parish, in recent arrangement, comprises only 1019 acres, but formerly included what is now called Glenaray parish, and continues, for most purposes, to include it. Its length, from north to south, is about 15 miles ; its extent along Loch Fyne is about 10 miles ; and its breadth is from 3 to 6 miles. Real property in 1880-81 of the Glenaray part, 5820. Pop. , exclusive of Glenaray, 1045 ; inclusive of Glenaray, 1700. The coast, in the north and middle, is flat and sandy ; in the south, is high and rocky. The interior is hilly and mountainous, but so diversified in contour as to abound in picturesqueness. Part, with pop. of 299, is included in the quoad sacra parish of Cumlodden.
INVERAVEN, parish, chiefly in Banffshire, and partly in Elginshire. It includes the quoad sacra parish of Glenlivet, extends thence along right side of Aven river to the Spey, and contains the post offices of Glenlivet and Ballindalloch. Its length is about 20 miles ; its breadth from 3J to 9 miles; its area 47,410 acres in Banffshire, and 1561 in Elginshire. Real property in 1880-81, 8739 and 938. Pop., quoad civilia, 2568 ; quoad sacra, 952. The surface includes some arable land contiguous to the streams, but is mostly mountainous, moorish, and bleak. The chief residence is Sir George Mac-pherson-Grant's seat of Ballindalloch ; and the chief antiquities are ruins of a noble hunting-seat, ruins of Drumin Castle, and remains of three Caledonian stone circles. The churches are 2 Established, 1 Free, and 2 Roman Catholic. There are 6 schools for 711 scholars, and 1 of them and a class-room for 105 are new.
INVERAVON, estate in Hamilton parish, Lanarkshire.
INVERAVON, Linlithgowshire.
INVERAWE, seat on Awe river near Bunawe, Argyleshire.
INVERBEG, place, 3J miles north-north-west of Luss, Dumbartonshire.
INVERBERVIE.
INVERBROOM, shooting-lodge near Ullapool, Ross-shire.
INVERBROTHOCK, quoad sacra parish in Arbroath parish, Forfarshire. It was constituted in 1854, and it contains a large Established church, 2 Free churches, a "Wesleyan chapel, and a public school with about 281 scholars. Pop. 8094.
INVERCANNICH, two hamlets, Easter and "Wester, 14 miles south-west of Beauly, Inverness-shire. They have a post office designated Invercannich by Beauly.
INVERCANNY, estate in Banchory-Ternan parish, Kincnrdineshire.
INVERCARRON, estate in Kincardine parish, Ross-shire.
