ANDREW HERON AND HIS KINSFOLK. 213 
farms were their heritage, and for the time and locality they 
must have been wealthy. 
Andrew Heron was the third son of Andrew Heron of 
Kirrouchtree, in which house he was born about 1660. 
Whether his father found the estate too large, or to avoid the 
death duties of the time, cannot be stated, but he made a 
pre-mortem distribution of some of his property; to Andrew 
he gave Bargally and Dalaish Cairns,'4 while Kirrouchtree 
and his other properties were to go to his eldest son, Patrick, 
at his death. 
Andrew, however, did not live at Bargally, which, as will 
be shown later, was not then a very attractive residence, but 
continued even after his marriage to Mary Graham of Flori- 
ston to reside in his father’s house. No doubt his assistance 
in the rearing of cattle and driving them to the Border towns 
(for Patrick: was a very successful breeder)* was useful at 
home. But when M‘Kie of Larg died, he took a ‘‘ tack of 
the Mains ’’ or home farm at Larg and moved there, no doubt 
to carry on farming and possibly cattle breeding on his own 
account. 
Larg is shown on the Ordnance map as ‘“‘ Large Tower 
or Castle of Larg,’’ and there is still to be seen the remains of 
a ‘‘ Peel Tower ”’ ina field near what, I think, can be identified 
as the farm or ‘* Mains.”’ 
In this humble cottage, for it is little more (though no 
worse or better than many more about there), Andrew and 
his first wife lived and their five eldest children were born. It 
is from their third son that I trace my connection with the 
Heron family. For seven years they lived in this house, but 
‘“ meeting with much disturbance from the heirs of entail as 
representatives of Larg’s estate anent the possession,’’* they 
decided to remove to their own property and went to Bargally 
on May 15th, 1691. 
Bargally (I use throughout the spelling of the Ordnance 
map) is situated on the east bank of the Palnure Burn, a 
tributary of the river Cree. On three sides, north, west, and 
east, the ground rises rapidly, particularly on the east, form- 
ing the bare hills of Cairnsmore of Fleet, the highest point of 
which is marked 2331 feet. The banks of the stream are 
