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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BOOT HILL Boot Hill
Boot Hill
Boot Hill
Boothill
Motehill
Moothill
Mute-hill
J. Condie Esqr. Factor
Revd Dr [Reverend Doctor] Crombie
Mr. William Keay

New Statistical Acct. [Account]
086 Boot Hill [continued] of trees. The church, of which the aisle remains, seems to have been built on the Mote-hill by the first Viscount Stormont about the year 1624. 'The people in the Highlands', it is said 'call the Boothill at this day Tom-a-mhoid, i.e. the hill where justice is administered'. Is the 'Gallows Knowe' connected with this? or the fact that Macbeth, the earliest sheriff in the shire of Perth, was styled Sheriff of Scone". New Statistical Acct. [Account]
"Boot Hill" is the only name by which it is Known in the neighbourhood. Tradition says, that the Barons carried clay or eart [earth] in their boots from their respective lands and made this hill or Knoll.

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