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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Supposed Site of a BURIAL GROUND [nr Bourtreehill] Supposed Site of a Burial Ground Mr John Fisher, farmer, "Sevenacres"
Hugh Montgomerie Esq. "Bourtreehill"
017 The Site, as pointed out by John Fisher* and Afterwards agreed to by Hugh Montgomerie Esq. is supposed to be the Cemetry or Burial Ground which at the time was in connection with the "Stane Castle" and Chapel, as recorded in the "Stat, Accts [Statistical Accounts] of the same,
There are no Marks or traces on the Ground sufficiently definite to show its limits, for the ground for many years has been covered with trees. On its East is marked a Well which has supplied water to the Inmates of the Castle. It is now dried up.

* "to whom it was traditionally handed down by his father and grandfather,"
SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGE [Stane Castle] 017 About 2 Chains N, [North] West of the Castle was discovered, not long since, About 4 ft under the Surface, a Subterranean passage or Vault, by workmen employed in the formation of the New Turnpike Road. to the extent shown on Trace, The Vault still remains but is covered over,

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Co [County] of Ayr -- Parish of Irvine

[Note] -- On 13 - 9 -- [Trace] 1 -- [initialled] JCG

[Note] -- Site of a
Burial Ground -- not Supposed site of

[Note] -- " Near Bourtreehill, on the Annack, is an old castellated
Structure, Called Stone-castle, belonging to the Earl of Eglinton,
which is said to be the remains of an ancient Nunnery, where
there were a chapel, a cemetery, and a small village" -- Fullerton's Gazetteer. and Old Statistical Acct [Account] -- [initialled] J.C.G.

[Note] -- Chalmers mentions, that "at Bourtreehill, in the
country part of the Parish of Irvine, a mile distant
from the town, there was formerly a chapel, with
a burying ground" -- [initialled] J.C.G.

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