Auchincarroch Road
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Auchincarroch Road
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 1 Mar 2013
Of the two buildings visible beside the road, the more distant one is Croftfoot, on the same site as a Croftfoot that is depicted on the first-edition OS map (surveyed in 1860). The nearer building is the more recent "Thrid". A very helpful gentleman from this area informed me that the name "Thrid" was taken from a ruin nearby, of which only low footings remain. The Canmore archaeology database lists a couple of such ruins, the nearest of them at NS 437 827, probably a reference to ruins that can be seen at Image I suspect that the name of that ruined building, in turn, owes something to the "Third of Blairwhomry" that is shown on Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (1740s-50s). [(*) Roy's map also shows "Blairwhomry" (i.e. Image), close to, but distinct from, "Third of Blairwhomry". Blairquhomrie is also depicted, as Blairchoymry, on the even earlier Pont/Blaeu map of the Lennox. On why there are so many "Blair-" names in this area, see Image]
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Image Location
Latitude
56.014676
Longitude
-4.50661