There is Lochspraig referred to on the website http://www.kirkyards.co.uk/places.asp?ID=4 as a place in ruins, and also Lochspraig burn. Clicking on 'details' gives the location as latitude and longitude - 55.077481,-4.586343 and there's a map to show where that is. The ruined place isn't named on the map but the burn is. Jenny (Who now has to go and play with that website some more!) At 08:05 -0800 8/12/10, Jim Patterson wrote: >Hello one and all of you fabulous folk on the Wigs list, Wow, my recent post >certainly caught lots of attention by so many talented Genealogical >researchers ever willing to help and guide listers like me.

If you click the "Modern Map" tab on the Details popup at that website, there is a red-orange dot which presumably is the site of the ruin, up the hill from the burn. It is in the forest just northwest of Glentrool Village and northeast of Marrbury Smokehouse on the A714 to Girvan, and is on a forest track. The burn appears to merge into another to become Fagan Burn, which then flows into the Cree northwest of Bargrennan. Paul, in Wigtown ----- Original Message ----- From: "J Blain" <[email protected]> To: "Jim Patterson" <[email protected]>; "Wigtownshire Roots Web list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:56 PM Subject: [WIG LIST] Lochspraig location Re: Lespraig-Minnigaff? There is Lochspraig referred to on the website http://www.kirkyards.co.uk/places.asp?ID=4 as a place in ruins, and also Lochspraig burn. Clicking on 'details' gives the location as latitude and longitude - 55.077481,-4.586343 and there's a map to show where that is. The ruined place isn't named on the map but the burn is. Jenny (Who now has to go and play with that website some more!) At 08:05 -0800 8/12/10, Jim Patterson wrote: >Hello one and all of you fabulous folk on the Wigs list, Wow, my recent >post >certainly caught lots of attention by so many talented Genealogical >researchers ever willing to help and guide listers like me. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Jim, I wrote earlier of not finding Lespraig or Lochspraig on old maps using the NLS site. With the guidance of Jenny & Paul, I revisited the NLS maps and found Lochspraig on the OS map surveyed 1849/50, published 1852 (6 inch Kirkcudbrightshire, sheet 21): http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch/view/?sid=74427634 This is an excellent map. It is also marked as 'Lochpraik' on John Thomson's Atlas 1821 and Ainslie's maps of both 1821 and 1797. These maps have less detail and suffer scale and perspective inacuracies. Regards, Bruce On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Paul D. Chilvers-Grierson <[email protected]> wrote: > If you click the "Modern Map" tab on the Details popup at that website, > there is a red-orange dot which presumably is the site of the ruin, up the > hill from the burn. > > It is in the forest just northwest of Glentrool Village and northeast of > Marrbury Smokehouse on the A714 to Girvan, and is on a forest track. > > The burn appears to merge into another to become Fagan Burn, which then > flows into the Cree northwest of Bargrennan. > > Paul, in Wigtown > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J Blain" <[email protected]> > To: "Jim Patterson" <[email protected]>; "Wigtownshire Roots Web list" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:56 PM > Subject: [WIG LIST] Lochspraig location Re: Lespraig-Minnigaff? > > > There is Lochspraig referred to on the website > http://www.kirkyards.co.uk/places.asp?ID=4 as a place in ruins, and > also Lochspraig burn. Clicking on 'details' gives the location as > latitude and longitude - 55.077481,-4.586343 and there's a map to > show where that is. The ruined place isn't named on the map but the > burn is. > > Jenny > (Who now has to go and play with that website some more!) > > > At 08:05 -0800 8/12/10, Jim Patterson wrote: >>Hello one and all of you fabulous folk on the Wigs list, Wow, my recent >>post >>certainly caught lots of attention by so many talented Genealogical >>researchers ever willing to help and guide listers like me. > >