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ibi
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Re: Drymen Parish - help with placename pls!
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 14 February 09 21:02 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: daval57 on Saturday 14 February 09 20:25 UTC (UK)
Very eloquent ma son.

I'm still almost convinced it is Boquhan / Boquan.

Dave

Eloquent ?, me ?  Shocked

Based on your rather neat 'Anstruther - Ainster' example I would not discount the Boquhan / Boquan possibility !

Orraverybest

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valr
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Re: Drymen Parish - help with placename pls!
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 14 February 09 21:14 UTC (UK) »
Thanks for the link to that map! Fab. Found Achilty - there it is Auchiltey - good enough! Nearer Buchlyvie. Will let you know if I find anything like Bohellochan.... afraid I'm not going for the Boquhan option!
"Did I hear someone mention Milngavie"?
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ADP
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Re: Drymen Parish - help with placename pls!
« Reply #17 on: Saturday 14 February 09 21:41 UTC (UK) »
I have found Bohellachin on the Stirlingshire map from John Thomson's map of Scotland (1820) on the NAS digital library website. I would be very surprised if it is not the right place.

http://www.nls.uk/maps/atlas/thomson/453.html
Drymen is the Y-shaped parish west of centre on this map.
Click on it until you can read the placenames.
Bohellachin can be found above the Y and M of DRYMEN (parish name, rather than town name). Fourth place name up from DRYMEN.

Bohellachin can also be found on  the 1850s OS map http://www.nls.uk/maps/os/oneinch_1st_list.html : Sheet 38  - Loch Lomond. Click on the point midway between the centre of the map and the south-east corner. You will see the Loch Katrine Aqueduct crossing a road, forming an X-shape on the map. Bohellichan is found by that crossing.

On a modern map, it appears to be in the midst of the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park. It must be near Drymen Road Cottage.
Go to www.streetmap.co.uk, and do a search for grid-ref NS506939. You will need to zoom out to see it on a meaningful map.
or --> click here <--

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daval57
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Re: Drymen Parish - help with placename pls!
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 14 February 09 22:22 UTC (UK) »
Amazing ADP.
Brilliant find.

Dave
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valr
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Re: Drymen Parish - help with placename pls!
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 14 February 09 22:29 UTC (UK) »
 Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin

hooray!
thank you sooooooo much!

val
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Re: Drymen Parish - help with placename pls!
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 15 February 09 00:34 UTC (UK) »
Congratulations (yet again!) ADP!!

A piece of trivia - a Google with the spelling 'Bohellachin' gets one hit.  In a Google book - History of Stirlingshire by William Nimmo.  It lists the meaning of Bohellachin as 'plain of wooded promontory' ...
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