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" In this parish of Bootle about a mile from the Kirk towards the North is a well, called the rumbling well, frequented by a multitude of sick people, for all sorts of diseases the first Sunday of May, lying there the Saturday night, and then drinking of... "
A large description of Galloway [ed. by T. Maitland]. - Page 16
by Andrew Symson - 1823 - 194 pages
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The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Wigton

1845 - 1288 pages
...well, called the Rumbling Well, frequented by a mul(itude of sick people for all sorts of diseases, on the first Sunday of May, lying there the Saturday...also another well, about a quarter of a mile distant, towards the east. This well is made use of by the country people when their cattell are .troubled with...
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The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Wigton

1845 - 1270 pages
...sick people for a" sorts of diseases, on the first Sunday of May, lying there the Saturday nigl"i *"" then drinking of it early in the morning. There is also another well, about aqiu'ter of a mile distant, towards the east. This well is made use of by the country people when their...
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Old Scottish Customs, Local and General

Ellen Emma Guthrie - 1885 - 252 pages
...crowds of sick people on the first Sunday in May. They lay by its side all Saturday night and drank of it early in the morning. There is also another well about a quarter of a mile distant towards the east. This well was made use of by the people when their cattle were attacked by a disease...
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Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs

James Murray Mackinlay - 1893 - 388 pages
...done in the south of Scotland from Symson, who, in his quaint " Description of Galloway," remarks: — "In this parish of Bootle, about a mile from the kirk,...towards the east. This well is made use of by the country people when their cattle are troubled with a disease called by them the Connoch. This water...
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Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs

James Murray Mackinlay - 1893 - 388 pages
...in the south of Scotland from Symson, who, in his quaint " Description of Galloway," remarks:—"In this parish of Bootle, about a mile from the kirk,...towards the east. This well is made use of by the country people when their cattle are troubled with a disease called by them the Connoch. This water...
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Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs

James Murray Mackinlay - 1893 - 394 pages
...this parish of Bootle, about a mile from the kirk, towards the north, is a well called the Eumbling Well, frequented by a multitude of sick people for...towards the east. This well is made use of by the country people when their cattle are troubled with a disease called by them the Connoch. This water...
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Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 52

Scottish History Society - 1907 - 760 pages
...conveniency was translated to the very center of the parish and called Bootle, because built in the Baronie so called. The parish of Bootle is bounded on the...well is made use of by the countrey people when their cattel are troubled with a disease called by them the Connoch ; this water they carry in vessels, to...
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Geographical Collections Relating to Scotland Made by Walter ..., Volume 52

Walter MacFarlane - 1907 - 744 pages
...parishes of Orr and Cowend, towards the south and : /. West it is bounded with the parishes of Berick and Gelston, (of which hereafter in the description...well is made use of by the countrey people when their cattel are troubled with a disease called by them the Connoch ; this water they carry in vessels, to...
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Fourth Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in Galloway ...

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland - 1914 - 506 pages
...the north-west end of Dalbeattie Reservoir on Barskeoch Hill. Symson says in 1684 that it was then "frequented by a multitude of sick people, for all...night, and then drinking of it early in the morning." SlA. Slot Well,do. — About ^inile east of the Rumbling Well another well is indicated on the OS map...
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Publications

1907 - 748 pages
...conveniency was translated to the very center of the parish and called Bootle, because built in the Baronie so called. The parish of Bootle is bounded on the...well is made use of by the countrey people when their cattel are troubled with a disease called by them the Connoch ; this water they carry in vessels, to...
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