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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
DUGHALLSBURN Dughalsburn
Dughalsburn
Dughalsburn
J. Creighton Occupier
Mr William Walker Farmer Bithnie
Mr William Reid Farmer Kirkton
062 Cottage and garden detached occupied by Mrs Sinclair or Creighton situated about ½ mile South of Bithnie and a little north of the Parish Boundary. pronounced Dool's Burn.
DOULSBURN [1895] Val [Valuation] Roll Mr James Macdonald, The Farm, Huntly, N.B. [North Britain] 062 For 1" purposes only, See remark in Index. 1895.
DUGHALL'S BURN Dughals Burn
Dughals Burn
Dughals Burn
Dools Burn
J. Creighton Dughalsburn Cottage
Mr William Walker Farmer Bithnie
Mr William Reid Farmer Kirkton
on Plan of Alford (Inverness division)
062 A stream which issues about a ¼ of a mile E [East] of the top of Collievar Hill the upper portion of which forms the boundary between the parishes of Tullynessle & Alford, and enters the River Don a little below Kirkton of Forbes. Tradition says the Burn derived its name from Dugald Forbes a Highway Man or cateran. who used the close woods of the upper district of the stream as a hiding place, and that his Father induced him to meet him at Forbes Church, where he was stabbed to death by the Father. Dugald is interred in the Church yard of Forbes near the North Eeast Angle of the Church, where two square stones stand to mark the spot. Dugald in Gaelic sounds nearly "Doo' hill`Dô-el etc.

"Caillevar, on the opposite side of of the river is about 1350 feet above the level of the Sea".
(New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] P. [Page] 440)

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Parish of Tullynessle & Forbes

[Note beside 'Dughallsburn']
English. ___ Gaelic.
Dugald. ___ Dughall.

[Note beside 'Dughall's Burn'] - Dools Burn on Plan of Alford (Inverness division)

Transcriber's notes

Callievar Wood is scored out. Note beside it states - See "Coillebharr Hill" - i.e. "Wood on the top of the Hill", which applies to this feature.

Doulsburn is entered twice on the original plan.

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CorrieBuidhe- Moderator, June Lobban

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