Mosshouse, New Monkland - where is it?

[apanderson]

I think this might be the one Sancti's talking about?

Sorry - I've been asked to remove the image in case it breaches copyright.

The image showed a modern'ish bungalow with older buildings on Brackenhirst Road, off the A73, Stirling Road (between Airdrie and Cumbernauld)

Anne

[sancti]

I was expecting a nice picture of the house and not the barn 

Get back to your gardening 

[Lodger]

That little old "barn" will most probably have been the original dwelling house, in the style of Burns Cottage at Alloway,
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/alloway/burnscottage/index.html

So congratulations Anne, you have discovered Claire's ancestral home!

[apanderson]

Hopefully Lodger!

These wee roads all round the Glenmavis/Righead area have cottages all over the place which all look as though at one time, they might have been small-holdings.

As for 'back to gardening' ...... rain has stopped play today (and anyway, the wee bungalow looks 60's style) 

Anne

[Clare Fowler]

Hi all,

Huge thanks to Sancti, Monica and Anne!  I've now found it on Google Maps Streetview and located it in old maps.  More to  the point, I have been able to show the other half the location of where his granny grew up and, even though there is now a more modern building, he is happy that he has been able to see where it is.

Thanks again - I knew when I couldn't find it myself someone on here would be able to dig something up! 

Cheers,
Clare

[mosstrooper]

Hi guys,

I think I am getting there.  I couldn't find a 'Darngavel' on Google Maps but I found a 'Darngavil Road' just to the south of Greengairs, so I think it may be safe to assume that 'Mosshouse/Moss House in the hamlet of Darngavel in the Quad Sacra Parish of Greengairs' might have been around there.

Looking at the map, it looks like it is on the edge of a large quarry, so it may be long gone.  There also appears to be a book (out of print and not in the Glasgow Libraries catalogue of course!) called " The lost villages: Whiterigg, Darngavil, Arden, Ballochney, Craigmauchen, Meikle Drumgray, North Standrigg, South Standrigg" - giving further weight to my new theory that it no longer exists.  Hopefully, I'll be able to track down a copy of the book at some point and it may well be listed.

Thanks again for all your help!

Cheers,
Clare

Clare,
          I went to school in this area and know it very well, I have the book "Lost Villages"

James.

[Swagman]

There are (were) two places called Mosshouse in New Monkland.

The one in Brackenhurst Road west of Riggend and the one James refers to on the moss near Darngavel now obliterated by open cast coal mining and landfill operations. The latter was one building but later another building appears adjacent to it on the 1899 OS map. This latter one could have been a miners' row.


 

[David Johnston]

Clare, just picked this thread up but thought I would have some useful info for you. My uncle Archie Logan still lives in the Moss house by Riggend.My grandfather was John Campbell McLean Logan born 1913 at the Moss house. There have been Logans in the Moss house since before 1916 that I am aware of. I have some of the family tree if it's of interest (back to my great grandfather and his first and second wife's). Interested to see where your other halves relatives fit in to the Logan or Campbell story. The Moss house is a very old building albeit it looks newer! Look forward to hearing from you. David.