A Blog about the Isle of Jura off the West Coast of Scotland


Isle of Jura Blog


Jura Genealogy – Trace your Jura Ancestors

Posted on Nov 19 2009
Between the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries many crofters in the Scottish Highlands were...

Jura Paupers Houses

Posted on Oct 26 2009
A while back Gavin pointed out a beautiful collection of old Jura images and when I revisited the site...

Old Jura Estate Images

Posted on Oct 19 2009
There are quite a few resources available online where you can find images of days gone by as well as...

Craighouse Jura in 1817 from the Canmore Database

Posted on Oct 12 2009
I’m a big fan of old images and postcards and one of the best resources comes from the Royal Commission...

Jura According to Modern Writers

Posted on Oct 10 2009
I found an interesting article in the Times Online about the Jura Malt Whisky Writer Retreat programme...

Jura – Island of Deer or The Cursed Isle?

Posted on Oct 04 2009
The name Jura is believed to originate from the Norse ‘Island of the Deer’ but do we know...

Jura in the Old Days

Posted on Jan 18 2009
Gavin, a reader of the Jura Blog, sent me a link to a remarkable Jura related website which turned out...







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