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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Burn of Achlais Burn of Achlais
Burn of Achlais
Burn of Achlais
W. Jolly Esq. Factor
A Menzies
J McIntyre
014.13 "Achlais" pronounced "Achlaish", is a Gaelic name signifying the armpit, shoulder or bosom, each of which may be considered descriptive of this stream as it passes the west side of "Bad Ochainaich" (the tuft of lamentation) near its point of rising in the muirs. It flows to the Endrick.
Whinnydram Whinnydram W. Jolly Esq. Factor
A Menzies
J McIntyre
014.13 A narrow strip of mixed wood, adjoining the Parish Road, which takes its name from a Farm Steading that stood north of it where some isolated trees stand at present. The name is well known & always used as adopted

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Co. [County] Stirling -- Buchanan Parish

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