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	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

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Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. 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	0	4
Crawfordjohn	0	2
Blackwood	0	2
Loudoun	0	2
Newmilns	0	2
Kyle	0	2
Sanquhar	2	2