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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MEIKLE TONGUE Meikle Tongue
Meikle Tongue
.
Muckle Tongue
Mickle Tongue
Mickyl Tongue
.
Meikle Tongue
.
Mykil, Muckle , Mickle
.
Meikle Tongue
Alexander McKenzie
John Adair Esqr. Writer Stranraer
Ainslie's Map 1782
Ainslie's Map 1826
Dr. [Doctor] Jamieson's Dicty [Dictionary]
Tannahill's poems quoted by Dr. Jamieson in his Scottish Dictionary
See Name List Plan 10D
010 [Situation] 3 miles W. by N. [West by North] of Newluce Village
A Small heathy hill on Meickle Tongue farm On the Summit of this hill stands a Trigl. ◬ [Trigonometrical Station]
FELL OF CRAIGCAFFIE Craig Coffey



Craigcaffie

Craigcaffie

Craig-caffie
Craigcaffie Fell
Craigcaffie Fell
Craigcaffie Fell
Fell of Craigcaffie
Commander C.G. Robinsons Chart of Loch Ryan R. N. [Royal Navy] 1839
Mr. George Guthrie Factor
Statistics Wigton 1841
Ainslies Map 1782
Thomas Wallace
Alexander McKenzie
Archibald McCreary
See name List Plan 10D
010 [Situation] 5 Miles W. [West] of Newluce Village
A high hill extending N. [North] and S. [South] from the Trigl. [Trigonometrical] Station on its Summit the part [of] the hill facing East [is] both Steep and Rocky , the hill is on the [Farm of] Craigcoffey the property of the Earl of Stair Culhorn by [Stranraer]

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[Page] 6 -- Parish of Inch

Form 136
Page 29- Meikle Tongue
27- Fell of Craigcaffie

[Note] This is only the name given to the trigl. [Trigonometrical] Station
from the name of the farm . The name of the hill is Cairniewa (See P [Page] 13 )
[signed] W S Loop Sec Corp [Second corporal]

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