OS1/10/13/15

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LOCH URR Loch Urr



Loch Urr
Mr Joseph Barton
Mr Beattie
Rev. Dr. [Reverend Doctor] Bryden
Gazr. [Gazetteer] of Scotland
040 [Situation] On Boundary between Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire at point where Dunscore, Glencairn and Balmaclellan meet.
A large sheet of water situated in the middle of a barren plain surrounded with hills, in which two counties and three parishes meet. It is about 3 miles in circumference and measures about 5 fathoms in depth, the water wherein is remarkable for its black appearance. In it is an Islet bearing the remains of a stronghold.- This loch is admitted by antiquarians to be loch-c[ure] mentioned by Camden, and which he erroneously supposed to be the source of the Nith & which he states was the site of a Selgovae Town.
OLD SHILLINGLAND Old Shillingland Mr William Stewart
Mr Moffat
039 [Situation] About 5½ Mile N.W. [North West] of Dunscore Village Near W. [Western] Parish Boundary.
The remains of the former steading of Shillingland, now used as outhouses

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Plan 39/10 Traces 2,3 &4 Ph. [Parish] Dunscore

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Glenessland scored through

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