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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MOUNT BOG Mount Bog
Mount Bog
John Brown Farmer
William Thomson Shepherd
011 [Situation] About ½ Mile S.W. [South West] from The Mount

Mount Bog extends in an easterly direction from the Houses Called Cairn Rig End, for about a mile, having the base of The Mount on the North and that of Cairn Rig on the South. It has been recently drained & now produces sheep pasture. On the Farm of Lochurd. The property of Sir W.G. Carmichael Bart. [Baronet] of Skirling. In a Small pond or Marlhole in this Bog were discovered, Several years ago, Several Horns of the Elk which were in Very good preservation.

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Kirkurd Parish -- Sheet 11.4. -- Trace 5

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