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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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CASTLE HILLS | Castle Hills (Stone Cist found here) Castle Hills Castle Hills |
Mr. Fowlie Upper Boyndlie Mr. G. Mitchell Flobbans Mr. John Gray Milltown |
002.13 | Two remarkable and prominent Knolls of a conical shape, cultivated, and situated on the farm of Upper Boyndlie, and derives this name from their pointed and castellated appearance. On the East one a Stone cist containing human remains was discovered. |
STONE CIST FOUND [Castle Hills] | Stone Cist Found (Castle Hills) | Mr Fowlie Upper Boyndlie Mr G. Mitchell Flobbans Mr John Gray Milltown |
002 | Two remarkable and prominent Knolls of a conical shape, cultivated, and situated on the farm of Upper Boyndlie, and derives this name from their pointed and castellated appearance. On the East one a Stone cist containing human remains was discovered. |
CAIRNYCROCH | Cairnycroch (Flint Arrow heads found) Cairnycroch Cairnycroch |
Mr Fowlie Mr. G. Mitchell Mr. John Gray |
002 | A conspicuous and uncultivated eminence of considerable height and prominence overlooking the farm of 'Flobbans', on its summit is situated a large mound of earth and stones known as Cairnycroch. In removing portion of it for building purposes, hundreds of flint arrow heads lying in a heap were discovered. |
FLINT ARROWHEADS FOUND [Cairnycroch] | Flint Arrowheads found (Cairnycroch) | Mr Fowlie Mr. G. Mitchell Mr. John Gray |
002 | A conspicuous and uncultivated eminence of considerable height and prominence overlooking the farm of 'Flobbans', on its summit is situated a large mound of earth and stones known as Cairnycroch. In removing portion of it for building purposes, hundreds of flint arrow heads lying in a heap were discovered. |
DEN OF BOYNDLIE | Den of Boyndlie Den of Boyndlie |
Mr. Fowlie Old Statistical Account |
002 | Applicable to a narrow & wooded valley or den extending from dam a little South of Upper Boyndlie, Eastward to bridge on County road 2.14 trace 5. |
MURNAN WELL | Murnan Well Murnan Well Murnan Well Mourning Well Cairnmourning (farm of) |
New Statistical Account. Mr. Fowlie Upper Boyndlie Mr. John Gray, Milltown Old Statistical Account Tombstones, Tyrie Churchyard. |
002 | A strong spring of pure water, situated near head of the above den. [Den of Boyndlie] "In a natural amphitheatre, Scooped out it may be, by some convulsion of the elements, there bubbles forth a most copious stream denominated the Mourning or Murnan Well" New Statistical Account Note: "Murnan" is the provincial mode of pronouncing Mourning |
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