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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
NEW DAILLY New Dailly
New Dailly
New Dailly
New Dailly
New Dailly
Thomas Scott
William McCulloch
Ivie Willet
J.B. Ross Esq
Johnston's County Map
050 A neat little village Situate [in] the centre of Dailly Parish. It [consists] of two rows of houses one & two [storeys] slated & thatched & in good [repair] It contains two Churches, two [Manses] three schools, an Apothecary's [shop] Sub Post Office & a branch of the [Glasgow] Savings Bank. There are [money] orders issued from the P.O. [Post Office] The Post-man arrives from the major office in Maybole at 10 am & [departs] at 1/2 past 5 pm . The savings bank was opened in 1817 & the [Amount] of deposits are pretty large. There is also a saw Mill which[was] opened in 1847 with a flour mill attached. The County Trunk Road between Ayr & Girvan intersects The village of Dailly. The Coach from the later place passes through it for Ayr every morning At 8am, returning again at 7pm.

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Sheet 50.11 -- Parish of Dailly

"The name given to this parish, Daly or Dailly, has
"probably arisen from its consisting principally of a dale
" or valley, stretching along the banks of the river Girvan"
(Statistical Account 1842)

"The parish of Dailly, says Chalmers 'was anciently
"called Dalmakheran or Dalmaolkeran ** How the name of
"the parish came to be changed to Dailly is not known, whether "
"it was simply an abbreviation of the original, or arose from the
"place of worship having been removed from Dalmaolkeran to
"Dailly is matter of conjecture." ** Patterson's History of Ayrshire (1847

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