MARTYRS’ GRAVE (Wilson, Jamieson & Humphrey)

Place-name:MARTYRS’ GRAVE
(Joseph Wilson, John Jamieson and John Humphry)
SSE martyrs ‘killed for religious beliefs’
SSE grave ‘burial place’
Blaeu Map:N/A
OS Name Books (1855-57):MARTYRS’ GRAVE (Wilson, Jamieson, Humphrey)
Location:Ordnance Survey (1896)

New Cumnock’s Killing Times

The following entries from the Ayrshire Ordnance Survey Namebooks (1855-57) are all associated with the persecution of the Covenanters and in particular the Killing Times of 1685 that visited the parish of New Cumnockn1, namely –

  • Martyrs’ Grave (Wilson; Jamieson & Humphrey)
  • Martyrs’ Monument (Corson & Hair) [1]
  • Martyrs’ Moss and Whig Hole [2]
  • n1: In 1650 the parish of Cumnock was divided into the two parishes of Old Cumnock and New Cumnock only for the decision to be reversed in 1667 and then reinstated in 1691. Therefore during the period of Killing Times the term ‘parish of New Cumnock’ is used is to describe that part of the parish of Cumnock that was once known as the parish of New Cumnock! 

The articles on each of these places will focus on the places while the history of the events associated with them will be covered in the Key Historical Events: Covenanters [3].

MARTYRS’ GRAVE: Joseph Wilson, John Jamieson, John Humphrey

SSE martyrs ‘killed for their religious beliefSSE grave burial place’

The entry in the Ayrshire Ordnance Survey Names Book (1855-57) for Martyrs’ Grave reads –

A handsome monument erected over the grave of three Covenanters who were shot near the spot in 1685. It is enclosed by an Iron railing, together with the original gravestone, which is fixed on the South Side of the monument. The following is the inscription on both. Here lies Joseph Wilson, John Jamieson and John Humphrey* who was shot in this place by [a] party of Highlanders for their adherence to the word of God and the Covenanted work of Reformation. 1685

* Humphry on the current stone

Map 1: Martyrs’ Grave (OS 1857) | Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

There are several conflicting accounts of the events leading up to the martyrdom of Joseph Wilson, John Jamieson and John Humphry on Carsgailoch Hill. There is no strong evidence to support that they were parishioners of either of the Cumnocks and that they were captured and killed whilst on their way home from a conventicle elsewhere.

The ‘Traditions of the Covenanters’ by the Reverend Robert Simpson, Sanquhar [4] plays a significant part in our local history. For many it was the entry point into Covenanting times associated with the parish and his’New Edition, illustrated‘ was always in high demand at the local library (when such things existed). He collected these traditions from local people and while his historical accuracy is rightly challenged the references to places and events remain a cherished part of our Covenanting heritage.

The tradition of the Carsgailoch martyrs was contributed by John Johnston (see Appendix), a teacher at Benston School, just over the parish boundary into Old Cumnock and is told in conjunction with the exploits of Hugh Hutchison, occupant of Daljig (now Dalgig), who witnessed the execution of the Covenanters and later with the assistance of others buried their bodies where they fell [5].

Their place of sepulture is still conspicuous in the dark morass, where a monument was lately erected over their ashes for the purpose of keeping in memory of the tragic fate of these holy and devoted men, who sealed their testimony with their blood. It is worthy of notice here, that when the monument alluded to was reared, about twelve years agon2, the following discovery was made :—

In digging down and levelling the place for the foundation, the workmen came upon the bodies of the martyrs, imbedded in the moss. They were lying in their clothes, which were undecayed—the identical apparel in which they were shot. The raiment was a sort of strong home-made cloth of the colour of the moss, and appeared in some parts as if originally dyed with heather. The bodies themselves, in a state of good preservation, were of a dull, sallow appearance. Part of the garments, and a lock of long yellow hair, were preserved as relics by the labourers. The hair was obviously that of a young man—very fine and soft. The bodies of these Christian patriots and martyrs were thus seen, after the lapse of nearly one hundred and sixty years*, shrouded in their hosen, in their coats, and in their bonnets, exactly as they fell by the murderous hand of their persecutors.

Rev. Robert Simpson, Traditions of the Covenanters (1846), p.131 [New Addition p.343]
  • n2: The foundations for the new monument were prepared in 1827 and therefore ‘about twelve years ago’ suggest that Simpson collected the tradition from Johnson in 1839, some six years before the publication of ‘Traditions’. Similarly if the bodies were seen in 1827, this is a lapse of 142 years.

There is also a local connection associated with Reverend John Henderson Thomson’s epic work ‘The Martyrs Graves of Scotland’ (1894)n3 which was edited by Reverend Matthew Hutchison, minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church (later Afton Free Church) of New Cumnock. Hutchison penned a preface to the book and noted that Thomson had not visited a few places including New Cumnock and as such the entry for the Carsgailoch Martyrs was compiled by Hutchison [6].

The Author had indeed pretty well accomplished his task; yet there were a few places that he had not visited; and it was deemed desirable that something should be said regarding these, so as to give greater completeness to the work. Reference is specially made to New Cumnock, Barr, and Kirkmichael.

J.H. Thomson ‘The Martyrs Graves of Scotland’ (1894), Editor’s Preface
  • n3: Thomson travelled round Scotland visiting graves and monuments of the Covenanters while serving as minister at Eaglesham, Renfrewshire (Reformed Presbyterian*, 1857-77) and then at Hightae, Dumfriesshire (Reformed Presbyterian Church*, 1877-1901). Thomson had issued two volumes (1875, 1877) of his visits while at Eaglesham and then further articles over 25 years while at Hightae. In 1894 all these original works were brought together to effectively create a new edition of ‘The Martyrs Graves of Scotland’ (1894) which was edited by Matthew Hutchison. He was born in 1829 at Lasswade, Edinburgh and moved to New Cumnock in 1859 to serve as the minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church (1859-1876) and Free Church (1876-1900) before retiring to Ayr, where he passed away the following year. *N.B. The Reformed Presbyterian Church joined the Free Church in 1876 which later joined the United Presbyterian Church to form the United Free Church.

Hutchison copied the style of the inscription on the old stone which presumably was still eligible in 1894 [7]. The original stone would have been erected in the early 1700s by Robert Paterson, better known as ‘Old Mortality’ [8]. It is interesting to note that the inscription was on both sides of the stone. The small remaining fragment has no inscription on the reverse side?

Rev. J. H. Thomson ‘The Martyrs’ Graves of Scotland’ (1894), Ed. Rev. Matthew Hutchison

The fragment of stone is now located in the Baird Institute, Cumnock. It can also be viewed on-line at the Future Museum, South West Scotland [9].

Fragment of original stone at Carsgailoch, Baird Institute, Cumnock
“By kind permission of East Ayrshire Leisure/East Ayrshire Council”.
History of the Martyrs’ Monument

The writings of Adam Brown Todd provide an insight into the changes at the Carsgailoch monument through the years. Born in 1822 at Mauchline, he moved to New Cumnock in 1844 where he worked at Wellhill Tilework, two miles east of Carsgailoch Hill, for some seventeen years. It was during this period that Todd earned the status of being a published poet with his first book of poems ‘The Hermit of Westmorland, The Covenanter’s Revenge, and other poems (1846)’ [10]. Overlooking the place-name error in the preface, where Todd gave his address as Wellhill, Cumnock, his ‘other poems‘ included ‘Lines on the Martyrs of who were Shot and Interred at Crossgellioch, parish of New Cumnock [11]’ – where Crossgellioch is an early form of the place-name Carsgailoch.

Two verses of particular note read –

The publication date of 1846 matches that of Simpson’s ‘Traditions‘ and Todd pays tribute to him in spreading the message in the following lines –

Adam Brown Todd (Courtesy Dane Love)

Wellhill Tile Works stood only a mile along the road from Benston Cottage, home of John Johnston who furnished Simpson with the Carsgailoch tradition. Indeed when Todd departed Wellhill in 1862, he rented Taiglim farm in Old Cumnock for a year, next door to Benston Cottage. The following year Todd was appointed editor of the The Cumnock Express and after a short stay in Afton Bridgend, New Cumnock, he later settled in the town of Cumnock [10]. Meanwhile the bond between Johnson and Todd was clearly illustrated in 1874, when John Johnson, ‘A Surviving Veteran of Trafalgar‘ had his poem ‘Lord Nelson’ published which included a ‘Biographical Sketch of His Life’ by Adam B. Todd [12]. 

The following year Todd’s article entitled ‘The Scottish Covenanters; or Summer Rambles to the Homes, Haunts , Battlefields and Graves of the Scottish Covenanters’. No. 1 - Crossgellioch, appeared in The London and Scottish Review [13].

‘A monument of some architectural pretensions has been erected on the grave of three martyrs who were shot there in the hottest time of the last persecution. An old stone, small and plain, which still stands, had long before been placed over them’. On the east side of the monument was, and is still, the following, :- ” Here lies Joseph Wilson, John Jamieson and John Humphrey who was (were*) shot in this place by [a] party of Highlanders for their adherence to the word of God and the Covenanted work of Reformation. 1685“. This is exactly the inscription of the old original stone, and those who took charge of repairing of the monument might surely have substituted the plural for the singular verb, without being guilty of of any impropriety of conduct.

The London and Scottish Review, Saturday 29 May 1875

This not only covers much of the entry in Ayrshire Ordnance Survey Name Books (1855-57) but also displays Todd’s annoyance that those in charge did not take the opportunity to correct that original inscription from three Covenanters ‘was shot‘ to ‘were shot‘. However, he reserved his anger for those in charge for ‘leaving out the best part of the following inscription on the west side of the monument‘, although at this time he did not specify the ‘best part‘ of the inscription.

British Newspaper Archive |The London and Scottish Review, Saturday 29 May 1875

However, the issue resurfaced some eleven years later in his book ‘The Homes, Haunts and Battlefields of the Covenanters‘ (1886), effectively his compilation of ‘Summer Rambles‘, including ‘Chapter II. The Martyrs of Crossgellioch‘ [14]. Prior to discussing the new monument Todd revisited the inscription on the old stone and the use of ‘was shot‘ rather than ‘were shot‘ and concluded rather abruptly ‘this ungrammatical inscription was doubtless the composition of some unlettered peasant‘. As for the new monument erected in 1827 with ‘a more elaborate and suitable inscription‘ Todd’s research revealed some later damage.

The slab upon which this was cut, however became decayed and fell out of place a few years ago; and when most properly, money had been collected to have the slab replaced, the inscription was so decayed that it could not be deciphered, and those who took charge of the work of the restoration were at a loss what to do; but expressing great anxiety to have the former inscription put upon it, they applied to the writer, who, having often visited the spot in his solitary wanderings among the hills, remembered it properly and was able to supply it.

The Homes, Haunts and Battlefields of the Covenanters‘ (1886) | Chap. Martyrs of Crossgellioch

Although these observations were recorded in his book of 1886, they were most likely made during Todd’s Summer Rambles of 1875. For if these observations had been made in 1886 Todd would not have needed to rely on his memory of the inscription, rather he could simply referred to his notes of 1875. As such, when the slab had ‘fell out of place a few years ago‘ , it was a few years before 1875, which may account for the inscription on east side of following ‘THE STONE WAS RENEWED IN 1868’n4 given in Martyrs’ Graves of Scotland [15].

  • n4: this renewal does not appear on the current monument and was probably removed at the later renewal in 1896.
Martyrs’ Graves of Scotland (J.H. Thomson, Ed. M. Hutchison)
Fragments of stone at the base of Carsgailoch Monument (Robert Guthrie ca. 1978)
Centre is a fragment of the original stone flanked on each side probably with the decayed slabs metioned by A.B. Todd

Todd then vented his spleen regarding the inscription on the new slab on the west side of the monument not reflecting that of the old slab and repeats his 1875 observations ‘that the principal and best part of it had been kept out‘.

Notwithstanding the great anxiety displayed to have the same inscription on the new slab as was upon the old, we were greatly surprised, after the work was completed, to find that the principal and best part of it had been kept out, but that care had been taken to perpetuate the knowledge of the fact that the repairs had been executed by money collected by the Free Church scholars of Old Cumnock, New Cumnock, and Ochiltree, more space being taken up with recording this not very striking fact, than in any mention made of the martyrs!

The Homes, Haunts and Battlefields of the Covenanters‘ (1886) | Chap. Martyrs of Crossgellioch

Although Todd again fails to identify the exact words that ‘have been kept out‘ he strongly complains that the inscription praises ‘the money collectors‘ more than ‘the martyrs‘. Yet this is not reflected on the existing stone which makes no mention of the collections or collectors, although it was ‘Repaired in 1896’ and that inscription may have replaced some of the 1826 inscription.

Carsgailoch Monument (Robert Guthrie ca. 1990)

Todd adds some additional information to that of Simpson’s comments regarding the recovering of relics from one of the Covenanters by labourers laying the foundations. He explains –

the late Mr. Ivie Campbell, of Dalgign5, on which farm Crossgellioch is, took a mitten, or pawkie, from the grave and cut off a portion of long yellow hair from one of the men , which he preserved with pious care, and which relics are probably still in the possession of his son, Mr. Ivie Campbell of Craigman. The builder of the monument also took a portion of the soft yellow hair of the slaughtered youth, which is lovingly preserved by his excellent descendant – Miss Margaret Reid, of Milzeoch , Old Cumnock a mile to the north of the Martyrs Grave.

The Homes, Haunts and Battlefields of the Covenanters‘ (1886) |Chap. Martyrs of Crossgellioch
  • n5: Ivie Campbell of Dalgig, died in 1867, aged 68 years. Ivie Campbell of Craigman, died 1910, aged 78. Miss Margaret Reid (b.1824) was the daughter of David Reid, mason Barshare, Cumnock who was shot in head during a riot in Dumfries Hotel, Cumnock in 1833.

Todd also commented on the sermon preached there in 1826 by the Reverend A. M. Rogerson. He was only four years old at that time and relied on his elder brother’s following account of the day –

Well do I remember the day at Crossgellioch when the Rev. Mr. Rogerson preached there many years ago, although I was then but a very little lad, and was taken there by covenanting fathern6 and mother, and of sitting near to the tent which the good man preached. The day was one of unclouded sky, and of scorching and unusual, heat even for the month of July. The congregation was a great one, and as the people sat upon the ground they extended far our in front of the tent; and I remember how, at the singing of the psalms, the precentor always paused for a little after each line had been sung, before reading the next (for the line was read before singing), as the sound, away out on the verge of the congregation, did not die away for a while after he, and those near the tent, had ceased to sing. It was a grand, solemn and impressive scene altogether, especially to hear the deep-rolling melody go echoing far along the wild as it being caught up by the light hill breezes, and borne aloft, and right up into listening ear of Jehovah.

The Homes, Haunts and Battlefields of the Covenanters‘ (1886) | Chap. Martyrs of Crossgellioch
  • n6: Todd’s parents were Matthew Brown ( b. Fenwick 1768, d. 1850 New Cumnock), and said to be a descendant of the Fenwick Covenanters, and Mary Gibbs (b. Mauchline 1779, d. 1861) and both later passed away at the Wellhill Tileworks.

Todd explained that the year of this great gathering has ever since been known over Scotland as “the year of the wee corn” since no rain had fell from the time to thelast oat crop was sown, until the first of it was reaped, while the greater part of the barley crop withered without coming to ear. The moors, therefore were dryer and firmer which caused the people to attend in great numbers to hear Mr. Rogerson’s sermon.

Coventicle on Carsgailoch Hill 16th June 1985

There was another factor at play, that surely would have attracted people from New Cumnock to hear the sermon from the Reverend Archibald Milligan Rogerson, minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPC), Darvel. A native of Wanlockhead, Rogerson was no stranger to New Cumnock dating back to 1804 when the Reformed Presbyterian Church societies of Darvel and New Cumnock combined under one congregation, which Rogerson served as minister from 1810 to 1815. Although the New Cumnock congregation disjoined from Darvel in 1815, Rogerson would have been a welcome visitor to Carsgailoch [16].

As discussed above, according to Hutchison, the monument was repaired again in 1868, probably to affix the new inscribed slab discussed by Todd. In 1896 the monument was repaired again, in a special year for reflecting on the history of the Covenanters.

In the summer of 1896 the ‘First International Convention of Reformed Presbyterian Churches‘ was held in Glasgow, Scotland from 27th June – 3rd July. On Saturday, the opening day of the convention, the delegates travelled to Lochgoin, Fenwick to unveil the new monument erected to honour John Howie, author of ‘The Scots Worthies’ and ‘chronicler of the martyrs‘. On Sunday 28th June 1896 the Reformed Presbyterian Church had organised Martyrs Memorial Services at 39 venues throughout Scotland including at the battlefields of Drumclog, Bothwell Bridge and Airds Moss and the graves of Alexander Peden at Old Cumnock and the Carsgailoch Martyrs with 2,000 people gathering on the hill [17].

Many of the services were conducted by American ministers including Rev. Dr David McAllister of Alleghany, Pittsburgh who was selected to preach at Carsgailoch. He had visited the district two years beforehand taking ‘a visit through Martyrland‘ in the company of Adam B. Todd. On his return home McAllister completed his compilation of ‘Poets and Poetry of The Covenant’n8 , and dedicated it to Todd as ‘One of the Poets of the Covenant‘[18]. It is likely therefore that this was a return visit to Carsgailoch for McAllister and surely a matter of great pride to deliver the sermon. A collection of £15 was taken after the sermon and this was put towards the £21 required to erect the railings around the monument. The Marquis of Bute, proprietor of the lands of Carsgailoch, made up difference with a £6 donation [19].

Reverend David McAllister and inscription on east side of the monument [20]
  • n9: McAllister also included no fewer than six poems from Mrs Harriet Stuart-Menteath ‘Lays of the Kirk’. The daughter of Major General Agnew of Dalreagle, Wigtownshire she later married Alexander Stuart-Menteath, the sixth son of Sir Charles Stuart-Menteath, 1st Baronet of Closeburn and Mansfied who lived at Mansfield House, New Cumnock. He also included two poems of James Hyslop (including The Cameronian’s Dream), son of Margaret Lammie who lived at Sunnyside on the lands of Lanehead, New Cumnock for a time and three poems from Rev. James Murray, Old Cumnock, brother of Rev. Robert Murray, New Cumnock.
My first photograph of the Carsgailoch Monument, not a tree in sight and the inscription reads ‘were shot’
( Robert Guthrie ca. 1978)

NOTES FROM MY JOURNAL ,1974

  • On Sunday 10th February 1974, six days after my sixteenth birthday, as a member of the New Cumnock Parish Church (known then locally as the Martyrs Kirk) Youth Club, I attended the ‘Sunday Evening Talk’ in the church hall. The minister, Rev. D. C. McPherson, would regularly emphasise that attendance at the Sunday talk was compulsory if individuals wished to attend the ‘Youth Club Friday Games Night’. Mr. Donald McIver, President of the New Cumnock Local and Natural History Society (NCLANHS), along with Mr. Shankland, described the Society’s aims and the need for ‘fresh blood‘ to join it. Although I didn’t appreciate it at the time, this meeting and the enthusiam of Donald McIver was a life-changing moment by igniting my passion for local history (having decided to drop History in favour of Geography at O’Level).
  • The following Sunday 17th February 1974 along with four friends from the Youth Club, I attended my first meeting of the Society in the Community Centre, where it was explained that three groups – Churches (Mrs Conquhar), Castles (Mr McIvor) and Covenanters (Mr. Clapperton) – had already been established. Although we had hoped that there was a ‘mining and minerals group‘, we all joined the Covenanters group (whatever that was!) - we would soon find out. At the second meeting on 17th March 1974, Mr Miller, President of the Scottish Covenanter Memorials Associaton along with two others, presented a slide show of Covenanters grave across Ayrshire and the work the association did in preserving the memorials. I noted ‘Although I’m in the Covenanters group I’ve mainly been interested but this talk today by Mr. Miller was a very good one‘.
  • The 4th meeting on Sunday 19th May 1974 took the form of a field trip to Dalleagles Burn, Dalricket Mill and then onto Dalgig farm where the tenant, an elderly gentleman called Ivie Smith, kindly showed us a number of family belongings including a Covenanter bible and a locket that contained a lock of hair and a small piece of woollen pawkie (mitten) taken from the Covenanters grave on Carsgailoch Hill in 1827 which had been passed down through the family. From here we climbed up to look at the the monument and to take notes (no cameras!) including the Covenanters names. It was also noted that ‘the monument had been restored and repainted. There are parts of the first stone inside the fence which the Club are thinking about taking and preserving.
  • On Monday evening 20th May 1974 I visited New Cumnock Library and Mrs Geddes, the librarian (and member of the NCLANHS) pointed me in the direction of the ‘Traditions of the Covenanters’ by the Reverend Robert Simpson which I took home and started to immediately take copious notes of New Cumnock traditions.

Sadly Mr. Ivie Smith, aged 76 passed away two years after our visit. He was the son of Andrew Smith and Jean Richmond Campell the daughter of Ivie Campbell of Craigman and grand-daughter of Ivie Campbell of Dalgign9 who recovered the relics from the grave in 1827. The locket remained with descendants of the Smith family and it has now been on show in the Baird Institute, Cumnock for a number of years. The locket can also be viewed on-line at the Future Museum, South West Scotland which also notes that the lock of hair and woollen mitten was taken from the body of John Humphry [21].

  • n9: The Ayrshire Ordnance Survey Names Book (1885-57) entry for Dalgig reads ‘A good farm house with offices and a large farm of land attached occupied by Ivie Campbell the property of the Marquis of Bute’.
1.Descendants of the Campbells of Dalgig with the Covenanting Relics of lock of hair and piece of woollen mitten. 2. Locket with lock of hair and piece of woollen mitten (By kind permission of East Ayrshire Leisure/East Ayrshire Council)

The landscape of Carsgailoch Hill in 1896 (see Map 2 below) had barely changed since the time of the compilation of the Ayrshire Ordnance Survey Name Books, 1855-57 (See Map 1 above).

Map 2: Carsgailoch Hill and Martyrs Grave (1895) | Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

However, today the landscape is unrecognisable with much of Carsgailoch Hill carpeted in forestry. The monument is no longer visible from a distance over the expansive bare moorland to stimulate the imagination and appreciate the hopelessness of the Covenanters escape as the Highlanders chased them down, and then ‘chased them up to heaven‘.

Today the Martyrs’ Grave sits in a claustrophobic rectangular clearing as if accessed by secret passage ways through the forestry, ironically feeling more like a place of refuge than one of paying respect. Further irony as only a few trees now stand on the neighbouring Pappet Hill … if only the boundary of that round plantation had been expanded to embrace the Martyrs’ Grave!

Map 3: Carsgailoch (OS 1895) side by side vs. ESRI World Image Overlay
Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

Nevertheless, despite the encroaching forestry the monument continues to be well maintained and well visited and hopefully there will be improved access in the future. The monument has been painted white, the inscription panels painted red and the inscription painted black. The railings have been painted black apart from those of the gate which have been painted red.

An inscribed plaque has also been attached the north side, more of which will be discussed in ‘Martyrs’ Moss and Whig Hole’ [2].

Carsgailoch Monument (Robert Guthrie 2018)

Inscription panels

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

References
[1] New Cumnock Pace-Names| Martyrs’ Monument (Corson & Hair) – in progress
[2] New Cumnock Pace-Names| Martyrs’ Moss & Whig Hole 0in Progress
[3] New Cumnock History |Covenanters Timeline
[4] Rev. Robert Simpson,’Traditions of The Covenanters’ (1846)
[5] Rev. Robert Simpson,’ Traditions of The Covenanters’ (1846), p.131 |Martyrs of Crossgellioch
[6] Rev. John H. Thomson ‘The Martyrs’ Grave of Scotland’ (1894)| Editor’s Preface p. xiii
[7] Rev. John H. Thomson ‘The Martyrs’ Grave of Scotland’ (1894)|Editor’s note p.338
[8] CANMORE, National Record of Historic Environment | Martyrs Grave, Carsgailoch Hill
[9] Future Museum South West Scotland | Martyrs’ Stone
[10] Dane Love, Ayrshire Notes, History, Antiquities, Archaeology, Natural History No. 25, Spring 2008 |Adam Brown Todd (1822-1915)
[11] Adam Brown Todd, The Hermit of Westmoreland; the Covenanter’s Revenge, and Other Poems (1846) |Lines on the Martyrs of who were Shot and Interred at Crossgellioch, parish of New Cumnock
[12] British Newspaper Archive | The Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald March 14, 1874
[13] British Newspaper Archive |London and Scottish Review, Saturday 29 May 1875
[14] A. B. Todd, The Homes, Haunts and Battlefields of the Covenanters‘ (1886) |The Martyrs of Crossgellioch
[15] Rev. John H. Thomson ‘The Martyrs’ Grave of Scotland’ (1894)|Editor’s note p.339
[16] W. J. Gouper, The Reformed Presbyterian Church in Scotland, Its Congregations and Ministers, Scottish Church History Society (1925) | Rev. A. M. Rogerson, New Cumnock
[17] British Newspaper Archive | The Scotsman, Monday, June 29, 1896
[18] Reverend David McAllister ‘Poets and Poetry of the Covenants’ (1894)
[19] Scottish Covenanters Memorials Association |Carsgailoch
[20] Log College Press |Reverend David McAllister
[21] Future Museum South West Scotland | Covenanters Locket
Maps
Reproduced with the Permission of National Library of Scotland
https://maps.nls.uk/
Map 1:Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882 (1857) | Martyrs’ Grave, Carsgailoch Hill
Map 2: Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1960 (1895)| Martyrs’ Grave, Carsgailoch Hill
Map 3: Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1960 (1895) |Side by Side ESRI Martyrs Grave (1895) vs. ESRI World Imagery (today)
Ordnance Survey Name Books
By Permission of Scotland’s Places
scotlandsplaces.gov.uk
Ayrshire OS Name Books (1855-57) Vol. 49|Martyrs’ Grave (Wilson; Jamieson & Humphrey)
Ayrshire OS Name Books (1855-57) Vol. 49|Martyrs’ Monument (Corson & Hair)
Ayrshire OS Name Books (1855-57) Vol. 49|Martyrs’ Moss
Ayrshire OS Name Books (1855-57) Vol. 49|Whig Hole

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