OS1/20/17/7

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MARSCALLOCH HILL Marscalloch Hill
Marscalloch Hill
Smeaton Hill
Andrew McCormack
James Sloan
Ainslies map.
009 [ Situation] About 5/8 Mile N. [North] f Marscalloch farm house
A considerable hill on the farm of Marscalloch (hence the name) its surface is rocky heathy pasture, On it is a Trigl. [Trigonometrical] Station called by Trigl. [Trigonometrical] Party "Smeaton Jnt. [Junction]"
MARSCALLOCH Marscalloch
Marscalloch
Marscalloch
Marscallogh
Andrew McCormack
James Sloan
Ainslies map.
Valn. [Valuation] Roll. 1819
009 [Situation] About 3/8 Mile N.E. [North East] of Deugh Bridge

A farm house and outhouses all thatched and in bad repair, with a farm of about 900 acres of land attached which is rented by Mr Wallace Esqr. of Knockgray, and is the property of Col. [Colonel] Kennedy Clarke

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Parish of Carsphairn

Form 136
Page 33- Marscalloch Hill
34 - Marscalloch

Marscalloch is likely from
the Gaelic. "Machair an Sgalaig" i e
"The farm labourer's field"

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Chr1smac -Moderator, Gerald Cummins

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