Barnkirk, a bog in Penninghame parish, Wigtownshire, in the immediate neighbourhood of Newton-Stewart. A canoe, formed out of a single log, was exhumed here in 1814; and a ball of tallow, weighing 27 lbs., was found immediately above the canoe, at least 6 feet beneath the bog's surface.

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