OS1/35/19/60

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
AUCHNEEL Auchneel
Auchneel
Low Auchneel
Low Auchneil
David McCulloch Farmer Broad ston[e] by Stranraer
William Cambell Farmer Haigh Craichmore By Stranraer
Mr. McHaffie Factor & Writer Wigton Town
Map of Wigton by John Anslie Date 1782.
015 A Small neat Farm House with office houses all Slated and in good repair attached to these is a large farm of Ground, the Soil of which is fertile and nearly the whole of it admits of Cultivation it is Situated about 2 miles N E [North East] of Stranraer Proprietor Sir A Agnew of Lochnaw, occupier Alexander McLean, on the Junction of a fence East of this Farm House is a Trig [Trigonometrical] Station Called by Trig [Trigonometrical] Party Aughmeil, Probably after the name of the Farm
POINT HOUSE Point House
Point House
William McWilliam Farmer Low [Craichmore] by [Stranraer]
Thomas Hay Clayhol Stranraer
009 A Small thatched Cot - house on the farm of Low Craichmore, it is built on a flat headland Slightly Projecting into the East Side of Loch Ryan hence its name it is distant about 2 1/2 miles North of Sranraer

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[Page] 60
Parish [of] Leswalt

Plan 10.C. Trace 4

List of Names collected by Thomas Smith C.A. [Civilian Assistant] 1st. Examiner

Object
Auchneel - A House & Farm
Point house - A House
[Signed] Thomas Smith 8th April 1847


[Note] About halfe a mile East of this farmhouse
And on the West side of Loch Ryan there
is an other House with 20 acres of Ground
attached to it, this has no name and is
a Sub-let off the farm of Low Auchneel, not
recognised by the Proprietor Low Auchneel being
the principle farm farm house

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