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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| MANOR CASTLE (Site of) | Manor Castle (Site of) | 054 | [continued from page 81] wherein is to be seen the ruins of an old castle, where, in times past some of the inhabitants have digged up silver plate, as I am informed; as also therein have been found certain pieces of silver, with a strange & uncouth impression resembling the old Pictish coine". |
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| RICHARDSON'S ROCK | Richardson's Rock | Thomas Ritson Little Ross Ainslies' Map 1796 McTaggarts Gallovidean Encyclopedia p [page] 469 |
054 | A large and conspicuous Rock situated between the Little Ross Island and the mainland, at low water, spring tides, you can walk out dry to the rock. "It is so called on account of a poor woman named Janet Richardson, having made a narrow escape from being drowned, the tide having come up and surprised her while gathering mussels, she plunged into the water, and her clothes kept her afloat, until she was driven ashore on the Milton Lands" |
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[Page] 82List of Names collected by Archibald Craig Pe R S & M [Private Royal Sappers & Miners] 1st Examiner
Plan 54B Trace No 4
Parish of Borgue
Object
Manor Castle (Site of) - Site
Richardson's Rock - Rock
[Signed] Archibald Craig Pe R S & M [Private Royal Sappers & Miners]
May 1st 1849
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