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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
THIRL STONE Thirl Stone
Thirl Stone
Thirl Stone
Thirl Stone
Hurl Stone
William Anderson Esqr. Glentarkie
George Rutherford Farmer Nocknarnie
George Davidson Shepherd Dumbarrow
County Map
Leighton's Hist. [History] of Fife.
009 [situation] Nearly 1 1/4 Miles N.N.E. [North North East] of the farm house of Glentarkie.
A large stone, the top of which is about a yard square, and is about 18 inches above the srface of the ground. It is an established point of boundary between the Counties of Perth and Fife. This was formerly a market place, where the surrounding farmers sold their wool. &c.; and on all market days there was a flagpole placed in the hole that's in the stone.
LITTLE LADY LOCH Little Lady Loch
Little Lady Loch
Little Lady Loch
Little Lady Loch
William Anderson Esqr. Glentarkie
George Rutherford Farmer Nocknarnie
George Davidson Shepherd Dumbarrow
Mr. Guthrie Balvaird Cottage.
009 [situation] About a Mile N.N.E. [North North East] of the farm house of Glentarkie.
A large pond, which owes its name to the circumstance of a ghost being seen about that place which appears in the form of a lady. On the property of Mr. Oglevie Auchtermuchty.

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22 Parish of Auchtermuchty Plan 9.C. Trace 2.

[Note - Thirl Stone] G. [German] Text

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"North of Petenbroigh and on the very boundary of the Shire near where some roads meet is a large Stone called the hurl Stone. The Stone is hard whinstone but has a hole in it into which it is said the standard for the weight of a great fair at one time belonging to Abernethy and held here was inserted, it is said the fair was principally for the sale of Wool which was weighed at this stone." Leighton's Hist. [History] of Fife vol II. p.207

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