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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
THE MANSE [SE of Dunscore] The Manse Rev. [Reverend] John Hope
Mr R. Halliday
Mr Richardson
040 [Situation] About 32 Chains S.E. [South East] of Dunscore Village.
A handsome and commodious dwelling-house of two stories, with garden & outhouses attached. Residence of the Rev. [Reverend] John Hope, parish minister of Dunscore. there is besides a glebe of good land.
THE BUTT The Butt Mr William McBurnie
Mr R. Halliday
Title Deeds
040 [Situation] About ½ Mile S.E. [South East] of Dunscore Village.
A small property consisting of one storey dwellinghouse of five tenaments with a garden & small field attached. - This probably at one time formed a portion of a large property or farm - hence the name Butt, which signifies in Scotch, a small portion of land disjoined.
LAGGANLEES Lagganlees Mr James Crosbire
John Chesney Esqr.
Mr John Murdoch
040 [Situation] About ½ Mile S.E. [South East] of Dunscore Village.
A dwellinghouse with garden, barns & other farm offices attached. There are several farms bearing the name of Laggan adjoining Situated chiefly in a valley running to North east. Lagganlees, literally the fields in the hollow. If so, it should be spelt Lagganleas. Lees here more probably means shelter,

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