INVERARAY, royal burgh and county town of Argyllshire, Scotland. Pop. (1931) 455. It lies on the southern shore of a bay, where the river Aray enters Loch Fyne, 4o m. directly N.W. of Glasgow, and 85 m. by water. Near the church stands an obelisk in memory of the Campbells who were hanged, untried, for their share in the Argyll expedition of 1685 in connection with the duke of Monmouth's rebellion. The ancient market-cross is supposed to have been brought from Iona in 1472. The chief industry is the herring fishery. The town originally stood on the north side of the bay, clustering round an ancient baronial hold, but it was removed to its present site in the middle of the 18th century. Inveraray became a burgh of barony in 1472; and
Charles I., while a prisoner in Carisbrooke castle, raised it to a royal burgh in 1648. Much has been done for it by the ducal house of Argyll, whose seat, Inveraray Castle, was built between 1744 and 1761 from designs by Robert Adam. The earls and dukes of Argyll were great planters of trees—mainly larch, spruce, silver fir and New England pines—and their estates around Inveraray are among the most finely wooded in the Highlands. Duniquoich, a timbered conical hill, adjoins the castle on the north.