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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
OVER CROY COTTAGE OverCroy Cottage
OverCroy Cottage
OverCroy Cottage
OverCroy Cottage
Captain Murray Gartshore
John Cooper. Over Croy Pr. [Proprietor]
Peter Hay. Drumglass
John Irvine. Kilsyth
025 A Superior Cottage the property of J. Cooper of Over Croy, which is south east of, and close to, the Cottage.
DAM [Over Croy] OverCroy Dam Captain Murray Gartshore
John Cooper. Pr. [Proprietor] Over Croy
Peter Hay. Drumglass
John Irvine, Kilsyth
025 This Dam, upon the authority of the Propr. [Proprietor] of the ground upon which it is, (J. Cooper) sometimes floods over the Arable & Meadow of which it is Composed to the extent shewn in A yellow dotted line on the Traces. The exact extent of ground which is flooded cannot be ascertained. That shewn represents the ordinary extent, which is now more than usual owing to the tunnel for collecting it having recently burst where the small embankment is shewn at the south west angle. The Propr. [Proprietor] of "Drumglass Old Lint or
Spade Mill" has the right of damming water on these lands of Over Croy for six months in the year - from 12th. Sept. [September] to 12th. March, for the supplying of water to his Mill. Lawsuits have more than once decided the right of damming the water on Over Croy for the use of Drumglass Mill. For ten years the right has not been exercised of damming water owing to the Mill being idle. but the Dam & the Rights connected
with it are well known in the neighborhood.
Some persons call the Dam Drumglass Dam & some "Overcroy Dam" but the Propr. [Proprietor] states that it is not mentioned
in his Titles &c. more than a Dam on Over Croy Lands for the use of Drumglass
Mill.

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