OS1/35/17/45

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
ROUND TOWER Round Tower
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Round Tower
William Hunter Farmer Cairn Ryan
Rev [Reverend] Archibald McCreadie, Minister, Cairn Ryan
010 This name applies to a circular Tower built in the Demesne wall of Sir Alexander Wallace at the North end of the village of Cairn Ryan, and has been Erected for ornamental purposes, its hight is about 12 feet with a flag pole of about 8 feet on its Summit before the year of 1830 there was only one Church in this parish and on Sunday afternoons in fine weather the Parish minister appointed this Tower as a place of meeting for Such of the parishioners as could not Conveniently attend the Parish Church and here he used to deliver to them a Sermon, by which reason the tower is Sometimes some call'd the pulpit, but Since the erection of a Chapple of ease at Cairn Ryan this practice & name has been discontinued

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No.136
Plan 10 A -- List of Names collected by Thomas Smith C. Asst. [Civilian Assistant] 1st. Examiner
Trace 2-- [Parish] Inch

Object
Round Tower - A circular Building

[Signed] Thomas Smith c/a [Civilian Assistant]
15th March.

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