OS1/14/57/53
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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KIL KNOWE | Kil Knowe Kil Knowe |
Rev: [Reverend] J. Anderson Kirkden Manse Mr Cameron Bractullo Mr. David Ford Broadleys Mr. John Orrick Surface-man A. Lyall Esqr. Gardyne Castle |
039 | [Situation] In the Wn. [Western] vicinity of Bractullo. The highest ridge of an arable field on Bractullo farm. So named from it's supposed to have been a place of interrment. property of Mrs Prettyman & Mrs Cathcart Several Urns have been found here. It is handed down traditionally that a chapel stood here - nothing can be had relative to its history. |
WARD WELL | Ward Well Ward Well Ward Well |
Mr James Cameron Mr David Ford Mr John Orrick |
039 | [Situation] S.W. [South West] of Bractullo. A well on Bractullo farm. traditionally called "The Ward Well." property of Mrs Prettyman & Mrs Cathcart |
GASK [farm] | Gask Gask Gask |
Mr James Cameron Mr John Orrick Mr David Salmond 'Curden' |
039 | [Situation] 33 chains S.E. by E. [South East by East] of Bractullo. A neat farm house with flower & vegitable gardens office houses & land attached occupied by Mr. William Fairweather. property of Mrs Prettyman & Mrs Cathcart |
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[Page] 53Ph. [Parish] of Kirkden -- Sheet 39-14. Trace 2
Kil Knowe [note]
Kil,- a term entering
into the formation of many
names of places in Scotland
from Gael: [Gaelic] Cill - a Cell. Dr. [Doctor] Jamieson's Scot: Dicty. [Scottish Dictionary]
[Page signed]
John Stirton
Sapr. R.E. [Sapper Royal Engineers]
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