Living in Ayrshire I often wondered why there seem to be a good few round tree areas near farms… I always thought it was odd but I think you’ve given me the answer in the video 👍🏽
Rackerfield Farm was my family farm in the late 19 century, it was a working farm . They sold butter, butter milk and milk . It was purchased by the water board when the dam was constructed, they moved to town head of Town head of Threepwood Farm where my father and uncle were born ,it was then owned by the Love family and had been for hundreds of years. My family stayed at Threepwood till they purchased Bogston Farm Beith. The milk rounds continued till the 1930s , when my uncle tragically died aged 18.
I enjoy, very much, your referencing placename origins. I have not heard "snod" as a standalone word since the 70s when at school we used it, as an in group word, meaning "neat" in the approving or complimentary sense. Until now I thought it had been solely ours.
I understood 'snod' as meaning standing proud or tall. The origin of the family name Snodgrass being from snod gerss and spelt Snodgers. The purple plume of the thistle is often referred to as 'snod'
Underhill farm at LoudounHill, was occupied by my grand parents, Alexander Gibson and Catherine Savage, during World War 1. Grampa was badly wounded at Gallipoli and later discharged from the Army because of his injuries. The site has totally collapsed into a heap of stones. Nearby is a Roman Fort and a Bronze age farm. This area was a hotbed of Presbyterian ism, in 17th century with many atrocities carried out by Government Troops against believers.
Thanks for the information - breathes some life back into the history of the site. I have made several videos about the Covenanters and their suffereings - all very sad.
@@rogergriffith286 yeah the one that was the formate dumnonii capital. I had tried googling the map reference and putting it into google earth etc but it wasn’t coming up with anything. Would it be an ordinance survey map if need to check ?
@@bornagainwierdo Try gridreferencefinder.com/ and NS411588. It's a bit of walk, but well worth it. Have a look at my older video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZPgapKE4vCI.html Also do have a look at my article here - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_Loch
