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DRUMMORE GLEN Drumore Glen
Drumore Glen
Drummore
Drummore
Drummore
Alexander McKey
William Wallace
Rl. Eng. [Royal Engineers] Map 1819
Old Map of Scotland
George McHaffie Esqr.
036 [Situation] About 1/2 mile South of the village of Drummore.
A considerable Glen the North Side of which is covered with Furze and at its base is a Stone Wall which forms the boundary between the Earl of Stair's and Col. [Colonel] McDowall's Estates.
CASS BURN Cass Burn
Cass Burn
Alexander McKey
William Wallace
036 [Situation] Running northward & falling into Cairngarroch Bay near Limpit Hall.
A Burn taking its rise in Alton farm and runs in a Northerly direction to its influx with the Sea at Cairngarroch Bay.
KILLINESS Calliness
Calliness
Cailiness
Killiness
Killyness
Killiness
Killiness
Alexander McKey
William Wallace
Proprietors Rent Roll
Old Map of Scotland
Rl. Engrs. [Royal Engineers] Map 1819
Ainslie's Map 1782
Statistical Acct. [Account] 1841 page 201
036 [Situation] About one mile SE by S [South East by South] of Drummore.
A good farm house and outhouses all in good repair with a farm of about 124 Scotch Acres attached the greater part of which is arable land Occupied by Alexander McKey the property of the Earl of Stair. On this farm is a Trigl. [Trigonometrical] Station called by Trigl. [Trigonometrical] Party Calliness Pt. [Point]

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