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Rerwick 5 each; Crossmichael and Kirkcudbright each 4; Iron- 
gray and Tongland each 2; Troqueer, 2 ; Kelton, 2; Colvend, 2 ; 
Urr and Anwoth, each 1, the last being Knock-tinkle. 
Our next Gaelic prefix, Drum, is interesting from its very 
capricious dispersion through the district. If Anock is a rounded 
hill, distinctly pointed, like a gigantic knuckle in fact, then Drum 
should be the appellation bestowed upon a long ridgy height. 
It is not so specifically a Highland feature as many of the other 
hill forms. Agreeably to this, we find it occurring only eight 
times throughout the whole of the large and varied parish of 
Minnigaff, only five times in Kells and Girthon, and only twice in 
Carsphairn. In Dalry it occurs eleven times, and in Balmaclellan, 
the adjoming parish, reaches its highest total of twelve. In these 
two localities you may any day convince yourself of the accuracy 
of this nomenclature. The central and southern portion of the 
county have extremely few Drums, seven parishes possessing only 
1 each, six others only 2 each, four have 3 each, two have 4 each, 
one (Balmaghie) has 5; and Parton, which adjoins Dalry and 
Balmaclellan, has 8. This leaves Kelton and Terregles with none 
at all. 
The important prefix, Din (pronounced Déoun or nearly sc), 
I have found at 27 different localities, some of which are certainly 
the sites of forts, others as certainly not; thus proving that the 
epithet was applied to a somewhat level-topped prominent hill or 
hillock, as such, perhaps oftener than to heights upon which any 
fortification may now be traced. In Carsphairn there are Dunbeg, 
Dundeugh, two Dunmores, and Dunbannoch. In Minnigaff there 
is but Dunnance (corruption of the Gaelic diminutive) and the 
doubtful form Denniemulk; in Kells, Dunveoch ; in Girthon, 
Dunharberry, Doon o’ Culreoch, and, possibly, Dendow, said to be 
an old form of Disdow ; Balmaclellan has Dunower ; in sea-washed 
Rerwick we all know Dundrennan and its majestic Abbey ruins, 
but not all of us have set foot on the, in its way, equally impres- 
sive stone fort on Dungarry, Galloway’s Thermopyle, as I have 
named it elsewhere. Balmaghie yields two, Duneskit and Dun- 
nance, the latter a fortified site ; Dunjarg and Dunmuir, in Crogs- 
michael, have both been forts, and superbly situated they were ; 
so also was Dunguile in Kelton; Dunrod occurs in Borgue, the 
site of one of the oldest twelfth or thirteenth century churches 
dependent upon the Abbey of Holyrood house ; and it is found 
