A cottage on Islay from Thomas Pennant's A Tour in Scotland and Voyage on the Hebrides, released in 1774. Firstly of the 18th century much on the population of Argyll was being found dispersed in modest clachans of farming people[108] and only two villages of any size, Killarow in the vicinity of Bridgend and Lagavulin, existed on Islay at the time