An example at Monamore on Arran has been dated to 3160 BC, although it was almost certainly built earlier than that, possibly c. 4000BC.

After Somerled's death in 1164 his kingdom was split between his three sons, Ragnall in Islay and Kintyre, Dughall in Lorne and the other Argyll islands, and Angus holding Arran and Bute.

On the 1787 trip to the Isle of Arran he found his first example of Hutton's Unconformity to the north of Newton Point near Lochranza, but the limited view meant that the condition of the underlying strata was not clear enough for him, and he incorrectly thought that the strata were conformable at a depth below the exposed outcrop.

He was the eldest son of Claud Hamilton, 1st Lord Paisley ( 4th son of James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran ), and of Margaret, daughter of George Seton, 7th Lord Seton.

While Baum was touring with The Maid of Arran, the theatre in Richburg caught fire during a production of Baum's ironically-titled parlor drama, Matches, destroying not only the theatre, but the only known copies of many of Baum's scripts, including Matches, as well as costumes.

As progress at the siege was slow, James sent Hans the royal gunner in Robert Barton's ship and then the Earl of Arran with provisions and more artillery.

* James Hamilton, Earl of Arran ( c. 1517 – 1575 ) ( from 8 February 1548, Duke of Châtelherault ) was Governor and Protector of the Kingdom ( 3 January 1543 – 12 April 1554 ) for Mary, Queen of Scots.

The dispute between husband and wife was set to dominate Scottish politics for the next three years, complicated even more by a bitter feud between Angus and James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran ; with bewildering rapidity Margaret sided with one and then the other.

With Albany once more in France ( where he was to die in 1536 ), Margaret, with the help of Arran and the Hamiltons, brought James, now twelve years old, from Stirling to Edinburgh.

In retaliation the Protestant leader, the Duke of Châtelherault, sent his son the Earl of Arran and the Master of Maxwell to seize Bothwell's home Crichton Castle and force the Earl, who was at Borthwick, to join them.

His open quarrel with the Earl of Arran and the Hamiltons, who accused him of intriguing against the Crown, caused some degree of anguish to the Queen, and although the Earl of Arran was eventually declared mad, Bothwell was nevertheless imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle without trial in 1562.

The government of Scotland was first entrusted to James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, as Regent.

Guise told an English diplomat Ralph Sadler that Regent Arran was a " simple man " and she could easily find out his " whole intent.

The marriage upset Anglo-Scottish diplomacy, as a possible union between Catherine and the Earl of Arran, a young and unstable nobleman with a strong claim to the Scottish throne, was now removed from the table.

Lord Boyd's son Thomas was made Earl of Arran and married to the king's sister Mary.

But Beton " loved him worst of all ," and, when Arran went over to the priestly party, Balnaves was, in November 1543, deprived of his offices and imprisoned in Blackness Castle.

Balnaves was surprised to meet the young Earl of Arran there.

Among the manuscripts of Baum's original plays known to have been lost are The Mackrummins, Matches ( which was being performed the night of the fire ), The Queen of Killarney, Kilmourne, or O ' Connor's Dream, and the complete musical score for The Maid of Arran, which survives only in commercial song sheets, which include six of the eight songs and no instrumental music.

Of particular interest is the fact that the Schechter Letter account of Oleg's death ( namely, that he fled to and raided FRS, tentatively identified with Persia, and was slain there ) bears remarkable parallels to the account of Arab historians such as Ibn Miskawayh, who described a similar Rus ' attack on the Muslim state of Arran in the year 944 / 5.

The oldest bridge still standing is the Mellows Bridge, ( originally Queens Bridge ) constructed in 1764 on the site of the Arran Bridge, which was destroyed by floods in 1763.

Its eastern side, connected with the mountains of Arran ( Eastern Armenia ) and Aderbijan, it is called Keik, and when it reaches to Ghilan, ( the Gelae and Cadusians ,) and Irak, ( Media ,) it takes the name of Terkel-diz-cuh ; it is called Mauz when it reaches Kurnish and Mazanderan ; and originally Mazanderan was named Mawz-enderan ; and when Alburz reaches Khorassan, it is called Lurry.

The Parthian name was Ardhan ( Middle Persian: Arran ).

Either way, there isn't a single four-poster in the next 300 kilometres to Ireland, suggesting the journeymen picked up pace and hurried down to the cultural crossroads of Machrie Moor on the Isle of Arran, in the vicinity of which several four-posters have been found and excavated.

He found other examples in Galloway in 1786, and on the Isle of Arran in 1787.

In the Firth of Clyde, Norse burials have been found on Arran, although not on Bute, and place-name evidence suggests a settlement pattern that was much less well-developed than in the Hebrides.

Some runic writing is to be found on the roof of St. Molaise's cave and a Viking fleet sheltered between Arran and Holy Isle before the Battle of Largs.

The rare Rock Whitebeam tree is found on the island, an essential link in the evolution of the Arran Whitebeam species, Sorbus arranensis, Sorbus pseudofennica and Sorbus pseudomeinichii.

He found that Arran had moved his army across the Esk by the ' Roman bridge ', and was advancing rapidly to meet him.

Raised beaches are found in a wide variety of coast and geodynamical background such as subduction on the pacific coast of South America ( Pedoja et al., 2006 ), of North America, passive margin of the Atlantic coast of South America ( Rostami et al., 2000 ), collision context on the Pacific coast of Kamchatka ( Pedoja et al., 2006 ), Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Japan ( Ota and Yamaguchi, 2004 ), passive margin of the South China sea coast ( Pedoja et al., in press ), on west-facing Atlantic coasts, such as Donegal Bay, County Cork and County Kerry in Ireland ; Bude, Widemouth Bay, Crackington Haven, Tintagel, Perranporth and St Ives in Cornwall, the Vale of Glamorgan, Gower Peninsula, Pembrokeshire and Cardigan Bay in Wales, the Isle of Jura and Isle of Arran in Scotland, Finistère in Brittany and Galicia in Northern Spain and at Squally Point in the Cape Chignecto Provincial Park, Nova Scotia.

One of the urns found contained fragments of processed Arran pitchstone, indicating some economic activity & commerce.

This lexicon was written in order to familiarize the unfamiliar phrases found in Eastern Persian ( Darī ) poetry for the people of Arran and Azerbaijan.

A study by the British Trust for Ornithology found that Ben Lomond may host the most southerly breeding ptarmigan population in Scotland, following the decline of these populations on Goatfell and the Arran mountains, potentially as a result of climate change.

Phyllite is commonly found in the Dalradian metasediments of northwest Arran.

Flint and stone tools were found, as well as a piece of pitchstone thought to have come from the Isle of Arran.

It is also found in marine sediments, as in the Ural Mountains and in dikes where water has attacked and altered volcanic glasses, as on the Isle of Arran in Scotland.

* Aran Islands: These islands off the west coast of Ireland, ( not to be confused with the Isle of Arran in Scotland's Firth of Clyde ), were unsuitable for arable farming because they were too rocky.

To the west, the larger islands of Bute and Arran can be seen, while on the other side of Knapdale the Paps of Jura may be visible.

The No's 1a-24a are positioned behind these and are probably coeval with the No's 1-27 and assumed to have been built for residents ' summer occupation allowing the main houses to be let to visitors, an accepted practice in Arran.

Minutes of the Arran Community Council show that the future of the church is a regular topic of debate, but difficulty in contacting the private owner or convincing him to cooperate seem to be ( part of ) the reason that there has been no progress to date.

It was argued that demolition would be contrary to national policy and to the Isle of Arran Local Plan as it would have an adverse impact on the Lamlash Conservation Area.

Arran knew himself to be outmatched in artillery and therefore tried to force close combat before the English artillery could deploy.

Due to the popularity of " Scotland in miniature " ( Arran ), Goat Fell is a very popular peak and there are many possible routes of ascent, some of which may be combined with visits to the summits of other nearby peaks.

Lying across the Firth of Clyde, the Isle of Arran can be seen.

Sanda can be seen from the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula and from the Isle of Arran on clear days.

Goat Fell on Arran can be seen at an angle of 313 degrees, away.

Henceforth Arran would rule with the advice of a council and the infant queen would be moved to Stirling Castle.

It is also known in English as Aran Island ( not to be confused with the Aran Islands off Galway Bay or the Scottish Isle of Arran ).

David Hamilton, Bishop of Argyll, and the younger brother of James, Lord Hamilton, Earl of Arran, was the next to be proposed to the Abbey by John Stewart, Duke of Albany and became commendator in May 1519.

The children of the immediate royal family proved to be short-lived, so on the death of James V of Scotland in 1542 the Earl of Arran stood next in line to the Scottish throne after the king's six-day-old newborn baby daughter Mary, Queen of Scots, for whom he was appointed regent.

Shields decided to move the ship to Troon off the island of Arran on the West coast, but since it had no working engine this meant that it had to be towed all the way.

According to the Armenian aristocratic tradition, the princely houses of Khorkhoruni, Bznuni, Mandakuni, Rshtuni, Manavazian, Angelea ( Angegh tun ), Varajnuni, Ohanian, Cartozian, Apahuni, Arran tun and some others, are all believed to be direct descendants of Nahapet ( Patriarch ) Hayk, whose epithet was Dyutsazn ( from Ancient Greek θεός, meaning " divine "), or of Hayk's descendants.

The West Sound Radio network's roots can be traced back to 1973 when the then Independent Broadcasting Authority advertised the franchise of Ayrshire, Arran and Cumbrae.

Arran is then placed in suspended animation ( even though he still ages ) by the orb, presumably so that he ' will be ready ' to fight the Nightcaster.

Arran's parents are supposedly dead when Arran finds his home to be a smoldering wreckage, at which point the orb informs him that ' it is the Nightcasterdoing '.