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Larg Hill - Covenanter memorial

 
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spoons



Joined: 09 Jan 2007
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Location: St John's Town of Dalry

PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:57 pm    Post subject: Larg Hill - Covenanter memorial Reply with quote

Location is 2 miles NW of Crocketford off an unmarked road. The memorial is in woodland and not signposted so you will need a map and compass to find it. Park your car at NX 816 744, walk up the track, turn right at the T junction (about half a mile) and after about 20 yards you will see a stone wall through a gap on your left - this is the Bads Knowe memorial, go up to the memorial and you will see the Larg Hill memorial up the hill about 150 yards to your left. OS Map Ref NX 810 751. And yes, that is a hand with finger pointing upwards on the top.

From the monument you can see the circular stone enclosure that is the Bads Knowe memorial.

"Yonder lie
William Heron from Glencairn
John Gordon )
William Stewart ) Galloway
John Wallace ) men
who were found out and shot
dead here 2 March 1685 by
Captain Bruce for their
adherence to Scotlands
covenanted reformation
to commemorate the
principles for which these
martyrs suffered this
monument is erected by
subscription after sermons
preached here by
Messrs McLachlan
& McGill
1843"

You can see some other photos here http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/797241



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 12:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Reported to UKNIWM today.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Frustratingly, as this is their burial place, this is not a war memorial within the national rules, so cannot go on the WMR/UKNIWM.

It is of course locally a war memorial.
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