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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LADY'S WELL Lady's Well
Lady's Well
John Muir
William Candlish
024 [Situation About 5/8 mile N. [North] East of New Galloway -
The track of a Spring Well. W[?] before it was Closed up with [w?] & clay it was much prized for its excellency of its water. [It] is on the farm of Holme -
TENT PLANTATION Tent Plantation
Tent Plantation
John Muir
William Candlish
024 [Situation] About 5/8 mile N. [North] East of New Galloway
A plantation on the farm of Ho[lme] the wood of which Consists of Beec[h] & Fir. previous to the erection of the Secession Church (now the [?] Presbyterian) at Dalry, a tent [was?] put up here for the Accommod[ation] of the Minister of the above denom[ination] to worship in. hence the Nam[e]

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[Page] 46 Parish of Balmaclellan Trace 2
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"Dalry the King'sfield. so called from a great battle thought to have been "fought here between the Scots & Danes. in which the Danes "were defeated, with the loss of their king, who is Said to lie "interred beneath the Standing Stone Dolarran Holm. One of the old lairds "of the Holm made excavations about this stone: where he found an "antique Sword. Upon the neighbouring heightS of Grennan pieces of SwordS "have been found. the Remains of a Coat of Mail were discovered. when "maKing a ditch. & about 70 years ago bits of Rusty Armour &c [etc] were frequently "turned up by the plough on Dolarron Holm". NicholSonS His. [History] of Gall. [Galloway] Vol. [Volume] 2. page 157.

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Letters are lost in the gutter binding of both entries.

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Molly Miller

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