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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BIRNIES BOWROCK Birnies Bourok
Birnies Bourok
Birnies Bourok
Alexander Tod Cardon
William Lithgow
Adam White
015 [Situation] About 3/8 of a Mile S.W. [South West] of Cardon Hill

This name applies to a Pile or Cairn of Stones about five feet high; Situated on the Parish Boundary between Glenholm and Kilbucho, a short distance East from where it Joins the County Boundary - on the Water line between Cardon and Chapelgill Hills. The Origin of the name is not Known.

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Parish of Kilbucho
Sheet 15 No. 14 -- Trace 1

[Note] -- Bowrock-- A Pile of Stones, a Confused heap of any Kind -- Jamieson's Scott. Dicty [Scottish Dictionary]

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