IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Cairn Terrace, GALSTON, KA4 8QF
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Cairn Terrace, KA4 8QF by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (2 Images Found)
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Barr Mill - Galston
Barr Mill was one of the oldest mills in the district. It is mentioned in the 1569 parish records when John Pearson registered the baptisim of his daughter Nancy. It was for a while in the hands of the Hunter family, one of whom was an acquaintance of Robert Burns, and whose great grandfather was the luckless hero of the old ballad "I had a horse I had nae mair." Burns, in his personal notes on the song, records an anecdote, 'which was founded on fact', related to him by the great grandson of the Mr Hunter in the poem. John Hunter of Barrmill in Galston, was the luckless hero who to repay youthful misdemeanors, fee'd himself (gave himself into service) to a Highland laird. The melody of the piece is thought to be a little older, having been published in 1776.
Latterly Barr Mill belonged to the Steel family. When the 1920 flood swept the milldam away the mill was powered by a gas engine.
Image: © Raibeart MacAoidh
Taken: 19 May 2019
0.20 miles
