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Place Names in Kirkpatrick-Durham. 



Regarding the attribution of colour, it is noticeable that 

 while the Gaelic-speaking people evidently tried to marl their 

 appreciation of colour in hills and fields, the later inhabitants 

 have hardly evinced that desire to the same extent. Except at 

 places called Redhill, Red Brow Pool, and Green Hill, nothing 

 but white- and black has been thought worthy of remark — 

 Whitecairn, Blackball, Blackloch, Blackpark, Blackmark. 



Two names mentioned by Sir Herbert Maxwell^ as belonging 

 to this parish might be classed as hybrid. They are Money knowe 

 and Moneypool. The first part of these might be of Gaelic origin, 

 but perhaps Moneyknowe is like Sillerhill, the knowe where 

 money was found, and Moneypool was the pool where money 

 was seen. 



This brief review has brought us over a period of more than 

 two thousand years. Does it not seem strange that a person who 

 speaks to-day of the Bridge of Urr is using a name which unites 

 the speech of people between whom is a space of twenty cen- 

 turies ? 



List of Place Names. 



Areeming. 

 Arkland. 

 Auchenhay. 

 Auchenreoch. 



Bar. 



Barbain. 



Barderroch. 



Barmoffaty. 



Barncailzie. 



Barnyard. 



Blackball . 



Blackloch. 



Blackmark. 



Blackpark. 



Boghal!. 



Boglebridge. 



Bogue. 



Bridge of Urr. 



Brockloch. 



Brooklands. 

 Brownie Hill. 

 Burnside. 

 Butt Hill. 



Cairney Hill. 



Chalmers Brae. 



Chipperkyle. 



Clonkins. 



Coldstream. 



Corse. 



Corsegate. 



Corsehill. 



Corsock. 



Craig. 



Craigadam. 



Craigelwhan. 



Craigengillan. 



Crocketford. 



Crofts. 



Croys. 

 Culfad. 

 Culshand. 

 Cushat Knowe. 

 Cutcloy. 



Dalvakie Holm. 

 Darngarroch. 

 Doon of Urr. 

 Doonpark. 

 Dronan's Craig. 

 Drumhumphry. 

 Durhamhill. 

 Durham Street. 

 Eastlands. 

 Fairyhill. 

 Fleckit Hill. 

 Fordhouse. 



Garholm. 



6. Studies in the Topography of Galloway, p. 256. 



