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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BAD NA CUAICHE Bad-na-Cuach
Bad-na-Cuach
Bad-na-Cuach
Luke Grant Finnylost
Mr. John Michie Forbes Lodge
Mr. James Milne Bressachoel
059 Applied to a ridge of a hill lying between the Meikle Fleuchat & the Ernan water
FAIRY HILLOCK Fairy Hillock
Fairy Hillock
Fairy Hillock
Mr. Luke Grant Finnylost
Mr. John Michie Forbes Lodge
Mr. James Milne Bressachoel
059 Applied to a small hillock situated a short distance north from the junction of the burn of Dirrara with the Ernan Water
BLAR IME Blar Im
Blar Im
Blar Im
Mr. William Shaw Castletown
Mr. Luke Grant Finnylost
Mr. James Milne Bressachoel
059 Applied to a large portion of ground lying between the Ernan Water and the rocky hill called Sgorr Gorm & Craig Aighen

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Parish of Tarland Detached.

Notes: Bad-na-Cuach - Bad, A tuft, cluster, bunch. A tuft of hair, a thicket, a clump of trees, or shrubs; a grove.
Cuach, - A drinking Cup, a coil, fold, plait, the hollow or bosom of a hill etc. (Gaelic)
perhaps Cuaich of the Cuckoo
JMD

Note: Blar Im - Blar, A plain, a field; ground; spot; a green
Blar, white faced; having a white forehead, Applied to Cows and horses
Im, Butter. (Gaelic)

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