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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
DRUMCLEUGH BURN Drumclough Burn
Drumclough Burn
Drumcleugh Burn
John Harper
John Black
See Plan 37D
043 [Situation] Running Southerly from Doon Hill runs into Lagg Burn 1 1/8 miles NE by N.[North East by North] of Rusco.
A small Stream or burn having its rise on the farm of Lagg and running in a Southerly direction to its conflux with Laghead Burn, thence it is called Lagg Burn to its confluence with the Water of Fleet.
LARGOES MOOR Largoes Moor
Largoes Moor
Largoes Moor
Largoes Moor
John Harper
John Black
John Sheriff Esqr.
Map of Property
043 [Situation] About 1/2 Miles N.E.[North East] of Rusco.
A considerable tract of Moorland on the farm of Laghead, it surface consists of heathy pasture, formerly the farm on which it is situated was called Largoes hence the name.
LARGOES Largoes
Largoes
Largoes
Largoes
Largoes
John Harper
John Black
Ainslies Map 1820
David Sheriff Esqr.
Map of Property
043 [Situation] 1 1/4 Mile N.E. by N. [North East by North] of Rusco.
An old house thatched and in bad repair
having out houses in ruins, formerly it had a farm of land attached but is now united with that of Laghead.

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[Note] Larg, A plain an Eminence
Note - The termination [?] is not of plain etymology without knowing the locality. It probably is a corrupn. [corruption] of the Gaelic uisgadh [?] locaiity

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