Muirkirk, Ayrshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Muirkirk. You may be able to find further references to Muirkirk in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Muirkirk town and parish Bartholomew
Muirkirk a town and a parish Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Muirkirk.

Place Type of entry Source
Garpel Water affluent Bartholomew
Garpel Water a burn Groome
Glenbuck a village Groome
Glenbuck village with railway station Bartholomew
Priesthill farm Bartholomew
Wellwood Works village Bartholomew

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Glenbuck 0 2
Airds Moss 0 2
Lugar 0 2
Avondale 0 2
Sorn 0 2
Douglas 1 2
Old Cumnock 3 5
Auchinleck 17 2
New Cumnock 0 3
Kirkconnel 0 2
Darvel 0 3
Catrine 0 2
Strathaven 0 2
Lesmahagow 1 4
Crawfordjohn 0 2
Blackwood 0 2
Loudoun 0 2
Newmilns 1 2
Kyle 0 2
Sanquhar 2 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Muirkirk. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
MUIRKIRK John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.