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insured, were rebuilt in 1781, with the addition of a granario. Tlie 

 Mills were used for grinding grain until 1st February, 1911, when 

 they were again destroyed by fire. They weie rebuilt, let to the 

 Electricity Works, and adapted for the production of electricity. 

 The Millhole Mill still continued to perform useful functions. In 

 1820 it was a IJark Mill. 



^^ Iti'ij. Citit de Kelso, 332, " et sic versus orientem juxta 

 ten am regiani, usque ad Kivulum de Dunfres quae solebat descen- 

 dere in stagnum molendini de Dunfres." 



18 A burn flowed out of the Gore Loch, passed through the Gore 

 Moss and Curling Pond past Craigs Farm, and into the now drained 

 Gill Loch. In the 16th century this burn was known as the Muir 

 Burn, and the district as the Wolfgill. From the Gill Loch the 

 course of the Millburn passes near Barkerland and on to Irving 

 Place, and into the Milldam, it then runs westwards, passes under 

 and then along the side of the Goods Yards to the north side of 

 l^ioom's Road. It is joined by a burn, which was probably the 

 Gallows Flosh, and which flows down Kirkowens Street, and by a 

 second from tlie direction of Cresswell and by the Loreburn before it 

 crosses Queen Street. It was also fed by a burn fi-om the loch of 

 Durreskon (Dalscon). On May 6th, 1915, the Town Council decided 

 to divert the course of the Millburn into the main sewer at the foot 

 of Queen Street. The Millbuin seems to have supplied the Three 

 Wells at the Dockhcad. 



19 Robert Edgar details these in his MS. History: — "Seven 

 colins or riseing grounds (tho' now within these forty years visible 

 to the remembrance of some old persons, levelled and brot down) 

 viz.. The Townhead hill or Moathill on the north. The Chapel hill 

 or old Schoolhill [i.e., in Chapel Street], the north-ea.st Barnraws 

 hill [i.e.. at north end of Loreburn Street], the Crossbill and 

 houses on the west thereof [i.e., above the Midsteeple and at the 

 "Standard" Office], The Fishcross hill [i.e., at the King's Arms 

 Hotel], The Southwardgate hill [i.e., above the Mechanics' Insti- 

 tute, the Soutergate], The Kirkgate or Old Kirk hill [i.e., at St. 

 Michael's Church]." This last is outside the boundaries given in 

 the text. 



19* A third interpretation takes full consideration of the early 

 spelling, " Drumfres " : Drum = a ridge; and phreas=: brushwood 

 or shrubbery. The ridge is certainly a topographical feature. 



20 Removed in 1887, when, beside the grey stone, was found a 

 small urn, now in the Museum of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway 

 Natural History and Antiquarian Society (Tnnmnrtinns. 1886-7, 

 p. 39). 



21 Between Calside and Mountainhall. 



22 Comparatively few stone implements have been found in the 

 parish. We have records of two stone hammers — one in the Obser- 

 vatory Museum ; the other, the largest .specimen of the type known 

 to have been found in Scotland, in the Scottish National Museum 



