OS1/20/55/20

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MILL BURN Mill Burn
Mill Burn
John Muir
William Candlish
024 [Situation] Running in an E S. E. [East South East] direction to Mill Bridge it then changes its Course to S. S. E. [South South East] for a distance of 25 chains then takes an abrupt turn & runs into the Water of Ken. -
A small Burn Running out of the Mill pond and flowing in a South Easterly direction (driving the New Galloway Mill hence its [name] to its influx with the Water of [Ken].
CAT STRAND Cat Strand
Cat Strand
John McCulloch
James Gaulds
024 [Situation] Running in a S. E. [South East] by E. [East] direction to its junction with Mill Burn at the North East end of New Galloway.
A Small Stream taking its rise on the farm of Troughiehouse and running in an Easterly direction passing the Parochial School on West &. meets mill Burn a little below the Mill Bridge, thence to the Water of Ken. -

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[Page] 20 Parish of Kells
Form 136 Page
108 - Mill Burn
104 - Cat Strand

Transcriber's notes

Letters are lost in the gutter binding of the Mill Burn entry.

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Chr1smac -Moderator, Molly Miller

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