Kirkmaiden place-names; place-name origin in a murder.
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1972.154.B7; SA1972.154.B8
Original Tape ID
Summary
Kirkmaiden place-names; place-name origin in a murder.
Miss McGuffock told the Misses McGaw that she used to wonder where her father went on a moonlit night: it turned out he was rowing over to Ireland and smuggling salt. Talk of local people and houses, including one that used to have a roof hole rather than a chimney. Mention of a house on [Shank's Moor?] called [Laggiegeelie?] where somebody from Low Drummore was murdered. Miss McGaw explains the name as 'the valley of blood'; Jack MacQueen suggests 'the stone of the lad'. An Adair from Low Drummore castle had a tryst with the Laird of [Keelness?] and he murdered her there, near Several.
In the glen there is a place called Gossips' Den where a man was supposed to have buried his gold; all the sisters ever found there was a ha'penny.
Recording Location
Village/Place - Galloway
Item Location
County - Wigtownshire
Parish - Kirkmaiden
Language
English
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good