OS1/20/114/3

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LANE HILL Lane Hill
Lane Hill
Lane Hill
A. Brigg
S. Kelly
J. Halliday
040 [Situation] About 1⅜ miles N.W. [North West] of Newfield farm house
A small hill on the farm of Moss-side its surface consists of arable land.
HOLEHOUSE HILL Holehouse Hill
Holehouse Hill
Holehouse Hill
A. Brigg
S. Kelly
J. Halliday
039; 040 [Situation] About 1⅝ miles N.W. [North West] by W. [West] of Newfield farm house.
A tolerably sized hill on the farm of Holehouse, its surface consists of arable land.
STANDING STONE [Townhead of Torrkatrine] Standing Stone
Standing Stone
Standing Stone
A. Brigg
S. Kelly
J. Halliday
040 [Situation] About 1½ miles N.N.W. [North North West] of Newfield farm house
A large stone of about 10 feet in height situated in an arable field about 20 chains N.W. [North-West] of Townhead of Torrkatrine farm house, it is not known by any particular name. although some of the intelligent persons in the neighbourhood is of opinion that it is of a druidical construction. This opinion of the people in the locality does not deserve much credit. It does not appear to be the remains of a Druidical temple as there are no other stones near it of the Kind & it is far larger than any stones which we found in Galloway forming a Druidical temple. It is plain it is not the remains of a cranloch. It is very likely a Stone of memorial to mark the spot where some event of importance took place and is of the same class as the [cat] Stones found in so many parts of Britain.

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Parish of Urr

Form 136
Page 23- Lane Hill
23- Holehouse Hill
23- Standing Stone

In the Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Kirkcudbrightshire publd. [published] 1845 is the following
notice of this Stone, On the estate of Redcastle and about a mile east
from the Mote of Urr there is a rude block of Granite of Considerable
height Standing upright in a plain field but tradition is silent
as to the purpose of its erection. -

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Chr1smac -Moderator, DANIALSAN, Missus SW, SR1960

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