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the puzzling name Schoolknowe ; equally puzzling is College 
Glen and College Hill, nearly 1200 ft. above sea level, in Dalry. 
Manifestly these words are not our modern words “school” and 
“college,” any more than is the latter found in College Lynn in 
Carsphairn. This last is a very fine linn indeed; and, when in 
spate, the river Ken must come roaring and routing through this 
rocky channel in magnificent style. Now there is the Gaelic 
adjective, ** coillaidheash,” which, | suggest with the utmost diffi- 
dence, might have been the original of the ephitet pronounced by 
the Lowland shepherd as something like ‘“ college,” and which the 
English surveyor wrote down ‘‘ college” as being the nearest 
approach he could make phonetically. 
As hinted above, it is impossible in the present paper to do 
more than skirt the fringes of a vast subject. The tabulation of 
even the Gaelic hill names alone would occupy more space than 
might be expected. A few notes upon the names of hills that are 
not Gaelic may fitly close these remarks. Take the generic term 
“Till” to begin with. Out of the total of 480 localities thus 
named, the district now called Balmaclellan yields 80 of itself. 
This sub-divided gives 15 Whitehills, 5 Millhills, Gowkthorn Hill 
(2), Redhill (2), Crof Hill (2), Belt Hill (2), Bar Hill (2), Brown, 
Grey, Blue, Green, and Roan Jill (1 of each), a Low Hill and a 
Tigh Hill, an Abbey Hill, a Court Hill, a Sheil Hill, a House 
Hill, a Well Hill, and a Step Hill, a Dam Hill, a Moat Hill, an 
Orchard Hill, and a Byre Hill, Crooks Hill, Spring Hill, Trip Hill, 
Bere Hill, Clay Hill, and Burntland Hill, a Tod Hill, and a Hwe 
Hill, a Stey Hill, and a Shaw Hill, Ree Hill, Blacknest Hill, a 
Halfmark Hill, and a Dear Hill, and others having the specific 
qualifications of Souter’s, David’s, Thornie, Seg, Hog, Drum, Gibbs’, 
Mid, Scar, Peat, Fairy, Loch, and Cairney. It is doubtful where 
Blowplain Hill should be ranked, probably as a much inverted 
Anglicised form of some lost Gaelic name. I may remark, in 
passing, that Cairney Hill, Thorny Hill, Shiel Hill, and Hill with 
some colour-epithet are much the most frequent appellations. 
Tippet Hill, Gibbon (which is the name of a rock near Castle 
Muir), Dead Horse (part of the ground at the foot of Netherlaw 
Glen), Farhills, Flat Hill, and two heights called Old Man are 
very peculiar names found in Rerwick. Summer Hill occurs in 
Balmaghie, and also Butter Lump, which, however, has nothing to 
do with dairy produce, but probably indicates a spot near which 
