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Place Namks. 9 



Waiilkmill — mill where cloth was dressefl, He. M-ank is to "full," 



or dress clotli ; wealcaii is to turn about. 

 Glenwhisk — uisge water, glen of. 

 Ewanston — Euan's settlement. 

 Grains — the split or branches of the valley. 

 Mains — steading. 



Glcnriddel — Riddel, ancient family name. 

 8!atehouse — sgleat a slate. 

 Boi-land — land of the food supply. Boers or original inhabitants. 



See " The Raiders." Tngliston and Borland fi'equentl}' 



together. 

 Coatston — G. coid bi'ushwoo<l, sticks, ton dwelling. 

 Crawfordton — Crawford's dwelling, called the Hill. 

 Knockauchlej'^arable or flat field, of the hill. 

 Brockloch — place of the badger. 

 Muirwhii'n — moor of the rowantrees ; also, pfuaran, a spring of 



water. 

 Crichen — the boundaries. 



Calside — side, coill wood, might be the sunless side O.S. 

 Shilling-land — '.shelling ' or booth, land. 

 Kirkcudbright — church of St. Cuthbert, C. 700 a.d. 

 Crowbill — croabh trees, or cro a circle. 

 Breconside — the brake or bracken, and side, sIojjc. 

 Castlefairn — castillum, village or town, fheavna, alder trees. 

 Balenie — baile house, roinne, point of land. 

 Stronshalloch — stran, a little strath ; and seilach (shaloch). the 



willows. 

 Auchenstroan — field of the little strath. 

 Gordiston — Gordon's settlement. 



Riggfoot — foot of the furrows or field, O.E. hrick, a ridge. 

 Barudannoch — the l)oldness of the height (danachd). 

 Clench — cruach, stack-like hill. 



Fleuchlarg — Fleuch, wet (in the sense of rainy), Leathad, slope. 

 Glenjaan — short glen. 

 Craiglearu — creagach, rugged rock. 

 Jarbruck — garbh rough, burg fort, same as borg, 

 Peelton (opposite) — Peel, W., a moated fort, or tower. 

 Castlehill— hill of the Castle. 



Monigryle — moine moss, thicket, Icl. groenn, green. 

 Gapsmill — named from " kep the gap," guard the opening in a 



fence ; from Covenanting times. 



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