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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
GLENRUTHER Glenruther
Glenruther
Glenruther
Glenruther
Alexander Kelly
Robert Kelly
George McHaffie Esqr. Provost of Wigtown
Ainslie's Map 1782
007 [Situation] 7/8 of a mile N.E. [North East] of Knowe farm house.
A good farm house having outhouses and a farm, containing about 600 acres of land attached and is the property of Colonel Stopford Blair
THE DEIL'S DYKE The Deils DyKe
Roman DyKe
Picts' DyKe
Hist. [History] of Galloway Appen. Vol [Appendix Volume] 1 Page 2
Hist. [History] of Galloway Appen. Vol [Appendix Volume] 1 Page 99
Hist. [History] of Galloway Appen. Vol [Appendix Volume] 1 Page 99
Stats. [Statistics] Wigton 1841
007 [Situation] This portion is in the northern portion of the Parish & on the S. [South] Side of the hill of Ochiltree & ½ a mile NE [North East] of Glenruther Farm Ho. [House]
The remains of an Ancient fence which is said to have extended from Loch Ryan 'till it joins the 'Britton Wall' in the Ph. [Parish] of Arran Dumfries-shire. * Probably formed by the Romanized Britons after the Departure of the Roman Armies.
Caledonia Vol [Volume] 3 page 237.
* Mr Chalmers the Author of Caledonia in a letter to Mr. Joseph Train of Castle Douglass dated 16th April 1820, Says 'I am disposed to think that this work is several Centuries older than the arrival of the Irish Cruithne , or Picts in Galloway'. Statistics of Wigton page 234

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Parish of Penninghame

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34 Glenruther
26 The Deil's Dyke

[Signed] Scott Barlow 12th. July 1845
Examined & completed by Robert Barlow Corpl. RS&M [Corporal Royal Sappers & Miners]
14th July 1845

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