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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BANKHEAD Bankhead
Bankhead
Bankhead
John Mitchell
David Kissock
Thomas Kissock
051 A small Cottage situated a few chains north of Balmangan Mill. The property of Horatio Stewart Murray of Broughton
MOAT [NE of Dundrennan] Fort
Fort
Moat
Moat
John Mitchell
Thomas Kissock
Thomas Kissock
John McTaggart
051 This object is 12 feet high and flat on the top with a gentle declivity is called by some parties a Fort, and by others a Moat which from appearance seems correct.

There is a tradition in this locality that a mansion house in some past ages stood near this place which was the residence of some of the ancestors of the late Broughton Murray M. P. [Member of Parliament] for Kirkcudbrightshire. It was usual to have moats near Baronial Mansions in the Feudal times.
STOCKMOSS BRIDGE Stockmoss Bridge
Stockmoss Bridge
Alexander Grier
John McTaggart
051 A county bridge of one arch over Standingstone burn on the road from auchencairn to Kirkcudbright 3 1/2 miles from the former place

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