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Any possibility it might be Culzean, pronounced Cullain, on the coast south of Ayr? 18th century spelling sometimes is Cullean. What's your source for these names? Best wishes Diana **************************************** Diana Webster Map Collections Manager National Library of Scotland 33 Salisbury Place Edinburgh EH9 1SL Scotland, UK Email [log in to unmask] Tel +44-(0)131-623 3972 Fax +44-(0)131-623 3971 **************************************** Visit our website Map Images: www.nls.uk/maps Map Collections Information: www.nls.uk/collections/maps > -----Original Message----- > From: A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Richard Oliver > Sent: 06 November 2006 12:55 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: 'Killen' or 'Killeen' in Ayrshire > > > [Apologies for cross-posting] > > Ordnance Survey activity in south-west Scotland in 1819-28 generated > ten 1:31,680 scale drawings, which were destroyed during > World War II. > The names of nine of them (listed in TNA PRO OS 3/28 and OS > 3/260) are > unproblematic, but the tenth is 'Killeen' or 'Killen'. This > would seem > to be somewhere in central or southern Ayrshire. I can't find > anything > likely either in the OS 1:50,000 Landranger gazetteer or on any OS > 1:250,000 mapping, and as the other names of the lost drawings are > inarguable, even if the spelling sometimes differs from that > used more > recently, I'm reluctant to accept it as an uncharacteristically gross > corruption of 'Cunninghame'. Has anyone out there any bright ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > > Richard Oliver > > ------------------- > Richard Oliver, B.A., D.Phil., F.B.Cart.S., > School of Geography, Archaeology & Earth Resources > University of Exeter > Exeter, EX4 4RJ > ******************************************************************* Visit the National Library of Scotland online at www.nls.uk ******************************************************************* This communication is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the ICT Helpdesk on +44 131 623 3700 or [log in to unmask] and delete this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Library of Scotland. This message is subject to the Data Protection Act 1998 and Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and has been scanned by MessageLabs. *******************************************************************