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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CLACH A' CHAIT Clach a' Chat
Clach a' Chat
Clach a' Chait
A. McKillop
D. Kerr, Corrie
Gaelic Orthography
238 A large stone lying on the roadside -
Sign[Signification]: The Cat's Stone
CLACH AN FHIONN Clach an In
Clach an In
Clach an Fhionn
A. McKillop
D. Kerr, Corrie
Gaelic Orthography
238 A large peaked stone lying on the shore.
Sign[Signification] : The Chiefs (or Fingal's) Stone.
SCHOOL [Corrie] School
School
School
Rev. [Reverend] Mr. Blacklock
Robert Douglas, Corrie.
A. McKillop.
238 A new school house supported exactly as the one at Brodick, by the Duchess of Hamilton's gratuity, yearly Government Grant, & School fees.
CORRIE Corrie
Corrie
Corrie
Corrie
Rev. [Reverend] Mr. Blacklock
Robert Douglas, Corrie.
A. McKillop.
Estate Plan
238 A small village occupied chiefly by fishermen. There are extensive Limestone Mines at it, but they have not been wrought for some time, There are a Post Office and good Hotel in the place, and steamers call on their way from Largs to Lamlash every day in summer - there is also a harbour.
*The structure of limestone at Corrie extends up the hills, rising towards the North and dipping S.E. [South East] at 36˚. The rock is of a bluish gray color, & the workings are inclined adits descending in the line of dip", Bryce's Geology of Arran, P. [page] 126-7.

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