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up the whole subject of the etymology of our place names in 
general, we must defer it for the present. 
In Twynholm is a name which, like many others, offers the 
ingenious word hunter a choice of interpretations. <A little to the 
east of Miefield (mis-spelt Mayfield on the maps) there rises a fine 
rocky hill, with a bold cliffy western frontage ; its name is Dow 
Craig Hill. Were this pure Gaelic one would expect it to be 
Craigdhu, just as we find it among the sterner hills in Kells, the 
following epithet of ‘‘ hill” not being at all uncommon. Craig- 
dhu would, of course, mean Black Craig, but is the name appro- 
priate? May the whole name not be simply broad Scots, Doo 
Craig Hill—a haunt of the wild pigeon ? 
I cannot in this connection omit quoting the Queenshill of 
Tongland, usually said to be so named from the fact of Queen 
Mary having rested thereon during that galloping ride from Lang- 
side. This story, firmly believed in in my boyhood, has yielded to 
reason and observation, and the route, by which the ill-fated 
Queen of Scots really reached Dundrennan, has long seemed to 
me to have been through Irongray and by the Castle of Corra, a 
line of travelling very much more direct and swift. How account 
for the name then? That may Se more difficult. It is always, 
except in novels, harder to reconstruct than to destroy. We must 
bear in mind, however, that this part of Tongland is rather 
peculiarly rich in old ecclesiastical names, and others of special 
interest. Kirkconnel Hood, up, on the side of Tarff water, near 
Barstobric’s N.W. base, are the Bishop’s Rig and Bishop’s Moss, 
close to them is Thorold’s Knowe, and within a stone’s throw is a 
spring called the Queen’s Well. If, as seems probable, this 
church, dedicated to Saint Connel, or Connall, be really one of the 
few very ancient churches whose record remains in the Scottish 
Lowlands, may it not be possible that the Well and the Hill were 
named in memory of Queen Margaret, from her frequent pilgrim- 
ages through the district, to that most venerable church of all, at 
Whithorn? This may appear to be a point upon which proof is 
unobtainable. I offer the explanation with no assumption of 
authority, merely as being a more reasonable one than that 
commonly received. 
There is in Troqueer a place called Suffolk Hill. I do not 
pretend to explain it. Perhaps, like the latter half of the parish 
name, Kirkpatrick-Durham, it is not in reality the name of an 
