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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
PEAT RIG Peat Rig
Peat Rig
Peat Rig
Robert McCourtie
James Sproat
John McCaul
016 [Situation] About 7 chs. [chains] N.E. [North East] by East of Moss Roddock Loch.
A small hill of a ridge[like] Shape on the farm of Tower the Soil of which is arable land. Peats had once been [cut] Convenient to it hence the [name].
MOSS RODDOCK LOCH Moss Roddock Loch
Moss Roddock Loch
Moss Roddock Loch
Robert McCourtie
James Sproat
John McCaul
016 [Situation] About 2 1/4 miles West of Barscobe Loch.
A Small Sheet of water on [the] farm of Tower. The portion [of] ground on which it is, was [formerly] a Peat Moss & in Consequence [of it] being all cut & used for [fuel] [& taken] away it filled up with water & formed itself into a loch.
GRIM KNOWE Grim Knowe
Grim Knowe
Grim Knowe
Robert McCourtie
James Sproat
John McCaul
016 About 3/8 miles E. by N.[East by North] of Moss Roddick Loch.
A Small hill on the farm of [Tower] the Soil of which is arable land, not Known in the locality how [it] got the name. -

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Parish of Dalry
Form 136
Page 52 - Peat Rig
50- Moss Roddock Loch
49- Grim Knowe

Peat . Vegetable fuel
Scott: Dicty. [Scottish Sictionary]

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