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Ordnance Survey - Wigtown county, OS Name Books - Wigtown county - Volume 32 - Parish of Penninghame, OS1/35/32

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Parish of Penninghame
Form 136 Page
71 Moss of Cree
73 Drumgowan

[Notes]

"Drum" A knoll a ridge. Applied to little hills which rise as ridges above the
adjacent ground - Gael [Gaelic] "Druim".

"Gowan" The generic name for daisy, Singly it denotes the mountain daisy.
"Gugan" A daisy. Gaelic.
Dr. [Doctor] Jamieson's Dictionary. -

Transcriber's notes

An entry on this page for "Little Moss" is scored through and is not transcribed.

Ordnance Survey - Wigtown county, OS Name Books - Wigtown county - Volume 32 - Parish of Penninghame, OS1/35/32

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

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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