INVERNETTY, seat near Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
INVERNOCHTY, place, with abrupt conical mound, supposed to have been the site of an ancient church, in Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire.
INVERORAN, inn on Loch Tolla, in Glenorchy parish, Argyleshire.
INVERQUEICH, ruined castle, thought to have been a royal hunting-seat, in Alyth parish, Perthshire.
INVERQUHARITY, strong, old, well-preserved four-storey castle, 3 miles north-east of Kirriemuir, Forfarshire.
INVERSANDA, seat, 4 miles west of Corran Ferry, in Ardgour district, Argyle-ehire.
INVERSHIN, hamlet, 5J miles south of Lairg, Sutherland. It has a post office designated of Sutherlandshire, a railway station, and a public school.
INVERSNAID, burn, ruined fort, and hamlet in extreme north-west of Stirlingshire. The burn issues from Loch Arklet, runs 3 miles westward to Loch Lomond at 6 miles from the lake's head, and makes, in immediate vicinity of the lake, a fine cascade of 30 feet. The fort crowns a rising-ground adjacent to the burn, 2 miles west of Loch Arklet, and was erected in 1713 to overawe the Macgregors. The hamlet lies at the burn's mouth ; is the point of communication from Loch Lomond to Loch Katrine ; and has a steamboat pier and a hotel.
INVERTIEL, suburb and quoad sacra parish on south coast of Fife. The suburb adjoins south end of Kirkcaldy; is sometimes called West-Bridge ; belongs to Kinghorn quoad civilia parish ; and has an Established church and a Free church. The quoad sacra parish includes also part of Abbotshall. Pop. 2023.
INVERTROSSACHS, seat on south side of Loch Vennachoir, in Callander parish, Perthshire.
INVERUGIE, railway station, small village, and ruined splendid castle of the Earls Marischal, on the coast 2 miles north of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
INVERUGIE, seat in Duffus parish, Elginshire.
INVERUGLAS, seat and small bay on west side of Loch Lomond, 3J miles north-by-west of Luss.
INVERURY, town and parish in Garioch district, Aberdeenshire. The town stands at conflux of the Ury and the Don, 17 miles north-west of Aberdeen ; includes Port-Elphinstone suburb, on Kintore side of the Don; is a royal burgh, alleged to date from the time of Robert Bruce ; unites with Peterhead, Kintore, Banff, Cullen, and Elgin in sending a member to Parliament ; presents a straggling, ill-constructed appearance; and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 3 banking offices, good modern bridges, Established, Free, Congregational, Wesleyan, Episcopalian, and Roman Catholic churches, 3 public schools, and 2 other schools. The Bass adjacent to it has been separately noticed. Real property in 1880-81, 8845. Pop. 2931. The parish measures about 4 miles by 3, and com-prises 4946 acres. Real property of land-ward part in 1880-81, 4342. Pop. 3038. The surface includes about 1000 acres of haugh and vale adjacent to the rivers, and rises gradually thence into three hills, with intervening hollows.
INVERWICK.
INVERY, estate in Banchory-Ternan parish, Kincardineshire.
INWEARY, burn, running to the Forth, on west boundary of Abercromby parish, Fife.
IONA, village, island, and quoad sacra parish in Mull group of Hebrides. The village stands on east coast of the island, near south-western extremity of Mull, 47f miles west-south-west of Oban, and has a post office under Oban, and a hotel. The island measures about 3J miles in length, and about 1J in greatest breadth; is variously low, tumulated, and moorish, with an abrupt hill, about 330 feet high ; and contains quartz, dolomite, and serpentine. It was famous, from 563 or 565 till beginning of 8th century, for the evangelizing establishment of Columba and his Culdee successors ; it afterwards suffered severe injuries by invasions of Norsemen and Picts ; it became notable again, in 1203 and following years, by erection on it of Roman Catholic establishments ; and it long figured, in connection with these, as the seat of a diocese, a resort of pilgrims, and a venerated burying-place. The site of the Culdee establishment was on its west shore, retains no vestige of buildings, and is very rarely visited. The site of the Roman Catholic establishments is on the east shore, adjacent to the village, retains ruins of the buildings, and numerous curious old tomb-stones, and is popularly identified with the Culdee history, and visited by multitudes as a place of joint interest with Staffa, in steamboat circular route around Mull. The ruins include a cathedral, two chapels, and two carved crosses, and were extensively restored in 1874-75. Pop. of the island, 243. The quoad sacra parish includes part of Mull, and has Established and Free churches and a public school. Pop. 709.
