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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
KILLESER CASTLE in Ruins Killeser Castle in ruins Sir John McTaggart Ardwell House
Mr Fergusson Ardwell Mains
Post Office Ardwell Inn
027 The remains of an Old Castle on the Ardwell Estate Only the East wall and part of the side now remains the person who inhabited this Old Castle was Sir Godfrey McCulloch the original proprietor had hung in Edinburgh for shooting one of the Maxwell of Monreith, his daughter who married one of the Monreith Maxwells who was factor on the Estate of Killeser until 1795 when it was sold and has been since the property of Sir John McTaggart & got he Estate that It got the name ardwell

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Plan 27 Trace 2 List of Names collected by P Cotmill RS&M [Royal Sappers & Miners]

Note [South Ardwell]
Tho' [though] this house is on the
Ardwell Estate it is not
called south Ardwell. the
house & farm to which this
name applies lies more South
by West on same plan and is
occupied by John Gibb, I do not
find that there is any distictive
name for this house.
A. Dean c/a [civilian assistant]

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