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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CHAPEL COUCH Chapel Couch Site of Chapel & Cemetry


Chapel Couch Site of Chapel & Cemetry
Chapel Couch Site of Chapel & Cemetry
Chalmer's Caledonia
New Statistical Account
Revd. [Reverend] Dr. [Doctor] Sym
Robert Logan Crossburn
James Cochrane Crossburn
023 "At Lurg on the estate of Mains there was another small Chapel of which few memorials remain. The place where it stood is pointed out by the name of 'Chapel Couch', and in the tradition of the neighborhood the auld kirk is still spoken of. There was a cemetery attached to it and till within these 30 years several tombstones remained. These are now all removed with the exception of one, which is covered with a few inches of soil, and is passed over by the plough. It is a rude unpolished stone without date or inscription." New Statl. [Statistical] Account.
The Site of the Chapel & Cemetery, which was situated in a hollow having the form of a couch, known as the "Chapel Couch", as pointed out on the ground by the two last personal authorities quoted, is well
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Co. [County Dumbarton & Stirling -- New Kilpatrick Parish


"At Lurgh on the Estate of Mains, there was another
small Church with a Cemetery." Orig: Par: Scot: [Origines Parochiales Scotiae]

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