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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BROWNIE HILLS Brownie Hills
Brownie Hills
Browny Hills
Thomas Hysop
Map in posen [possession] of W. Lidderdale Esq. dated 1803
Valuation Roll 1819
045 [Situation] About 1/2 mile SW [South West] of Gelston Castle.
A number of small rocky Hills upon the Farm of Ingliston.
KIRKLAND OF GELSTON Kirkland of Gelston
Kirkland of Gelston
Kirkland
Kirkland of Gelston
William Lidderdale Esq.
Thomas Hyslop
Ainslies Map 1797
Valuation Roll
1819 Appendix
045 [Situation] 5/8 mle S by E [South by East] of Gelston Castle.
A small Farm with office houses all of which are in good repair attached is a farm of about 45 acres of land. It is the property of Charlses Kiran Esq. of Calson Park County Mayo Ireland.
GELSTON KIRK (Site of) Gelston Kirk
Gelston Kirk
Thomas Hyslop
Ainslies Map 1797
045 [Situation] At the South Side of the farm steading of Kirkland of Gelston.
This appears to have been the Parish Church of Gelston but now Gelston is annexed to Kelton together with Kirkcowrmack, at present there is nothing to be seen of the ruins but a small ridge denoting where the foundation walls stood, it is Situated in Gelston Kirkyard & immediately in rear of the office house belonging to the far-off Kirklds of Gelston.

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[Note under Gelston Kirk] This is Anglo Saxon means the residence of a person named Gall or Gill

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