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Ordnance Survey - Wigtown county, OS Name Books - Wigtown county - Volume 2 - Parish of Kirkcolm, OS1/35/2

Continued entries/extra info

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Note - in the Valuation Roll of Wigtownshire
There is the following entry
"George Campbell for 'ballsirroche' 0101
Ane hundrethe ane punds (Scots)
The Name is so spelt in the public records
and when in that part of the County
I hear the lands always called Balsarrock
and I thinK it the proper name-
In the County there are two
large farms invariably called & [Known]
by the name of "Barsalloch"the one in
Mochrum parish the property of Sir [William]
Maxwell and the other in Penninghame
pertaining to the Earl of Galloway and [in]
KirKcolm Parish there is another Farm [of]
the name of "BalscallocK" - Wigtown 1 April
G.McH [George McHaffie]
W. Driscoll Gossit. Lt R.E. [Lieutenant Royal Engineers]

Ordnance Survey - Wigtown county, OS Name Books - Wigtown county - Volume 2 - Parish of Kirkcolm, OS1/35/2

This volume contains information on place names found in the Wigtownshire parish of Kirkcolm.

Ordnance Survey - Wigtown county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Wigtown, which is in the south west of Scotland.

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