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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CARDROSS MOSS Cardross Moss
Cardross Moss
Cardross Moss
John Aiken Esq. Factor Cardross
Mr McKerchar, Gartur
Hugh Graham, Gateside
130 A large tract of Moss on the farm of Gartur and Estate of Cardross, its bounds are delineated by a yellow band on the Traces
BOGLE KNOWE Bogle Knowe
Bogle Knowe
Bogle Knowe
Bogle Know
Hugh Graham
The Rev Dr [Reverend Doctor] Turner
John Aitken Esqr. Factor
Priory of Inchmahome
130 A Small elevated portion of land nearly Surrounded by water on the South Side of the Lake of Monteith. It was believed, by the superstitious to to have been a haunt for Ghosts &c. hence the name.
BLACK LOCH Black Loch
Black Loch
Black Loch
Black Loch
Hugh Graham
Mr McKerchar
John Aitken Esqr.
Major Erskine, Propr. [Proprietor]
130 A small irregular shaped Lake on the lands of Cardross. In the moor near the Southwest end of this lake is a small mound of earth apparently artificial. Concerning it, the inhabitants know nothing farther than it is there to be seen.
MOUND [Black Loch] Mound 130 A sort of mound in the middle of a marsh with some small plum trees growing on it and built round with stones as if the water had entirely surrounded it and been kept out. It is not a sepulchral mound.

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Plan 130.7 Port of Monteith -- Perthshire

[Note beside 'Bogle Knowe'] - "Bogle Know or "Hobgoblin Hill" a Singular peninsula on the South-Eastern shore of the lake" Priory of Inchmahome

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