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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
ACQUAINTANCE HILL Acquaintance Hill
Acquaintance Hill
Robert McAdam
Thomas Crosby
009 An Eminence on the farm of Castlemaddy, its surface is rocky heathy pasture. On it is a Trigl. [Trigonometrical] Station called by Trigl. [Trigonometrical] Party "Sheil Craig".
DEIL'S DIKE 009
PULMADDY BURN Pulmaddy Burn
Pulmaddy Burn
Polmaddy Burn
Robert McAdam
Ivy McCutcheon
Ainslies Map.
See Name List Plan 9 D
009 A considerable stream or burn having its rise between Corserine and Carlin's Cairn, and running in a S. [South] Easterly direction (bounding in its course divers farms passing through Pulmaddy (in ruins) (hence the name) to its confluence with the "Water of Deugh" near to Strangassel Toll Bar. During this Burn's whole length it forms a boundary line betwixt the parishes of Carsphairn and Kells.

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Parish of Carsphairn


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Acquaintance Hill
[Situation] 1 7/8 Miles W. [West] of Braidenoch farm house
Pulmaddy Burn
[Situation] Running in a S.E. [South Easterly] direction &. passing the South side of Drumness.

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DEIL'S DIKE - not on this page

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Gerald Cummins

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