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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Killearn (village) Killearn
Killearn
Killearn
Killearn
Peter Blackburn Esqr.
Rev. [Reverend] John Graham
Rev. [Reverend] John Fiddes
Mr. William Halley
020.08 A small village situated near the centre of the parish of the same name. It is irregularly built, the houses being a good deal scattered, chiefly one storey, nearly all slated, and in good repair. It contains the parochial Church, Manse & School; a Free Church and Manse; one inn, a post office, a monument, erected to the memory of George Buchanan; four small grocer shops; three carpenter shops, and a smithy.
It is intersected by a turnpike road, on which, in the north side of the village, is a toll at which whole rates are leviable.
The inhabitants are principally agricultural laborers.

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Parish of Killearn

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