Crossgellioch, a wild mossy moor in Carsphairn parish, N Kirkcudbrightshire. Three Covenanters, plain country men, when returning from a conventicle in the vicinity, in the winter of 1684, were met here by Claverhouse and a party of his men, and were summarily shot. Their bodies were buried on the moor; and, at a recent period, were found embalmed in the moss, 'shrouded in their hosen, in their coats, and in their bonnets, exactly as they fell.'

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)