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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Bona from Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland of 1882-84:
- "Bona, an ancient parish of NE Inverness-shire, now united to Inverness parish. The central part of it is at Bona Ferry, on Loch Dochfour, 6 miles SW of Inverness. A school-house, used for religions service, the ruins of the ancient church, and remains of a Roman station, 'formerly identified with the Banatia Urbs of the false Richard of Cirencester', are in the vicinity of the ferry; and a rude mediæval fortress, called Castle Spiritual, and probably designed to command the passage of the Ness, stood near the site of the 'Roman station', and was partly removed in operations for improving the Caledonian Canal. During the progress of these operations, at and near the fortress there were found some coins of Queen Elizabeth, a number of well-preserved human bones, a complete human skeleton, and a stone-encased nest of live toads."
There is a 19th-century local map in A Vision of Britain through Time.
The exact date of the merger of the parishes is unknown. Further information about the locality can be found in the article on the parish of Inverness and Bona.
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