"BUTESHIRE. The Islands of Bute, Arran, Great and Little Cumbray
(or Cumbrae), Holy Isle, Pladda, and Inch-Marnoch, compose this shire, which
comprises 225 square miles of land, or 143,997 acres..According to the returns
presented to Government in 1871 the population of the shire was 16,996" from Slater's Directory of Scotland, Volume II,
1878
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