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English: The ruin of Ardochbeg Close examination of this mound reveals it to be the ruins of a house. The house was called Ardochbeg ("small dwelling"), and its site saw at least four centuries of habitation, as shown by occasional references in historical records.
October 4th, 1539, saw "John McRobert McFarlane, Duncan Dow McKippoune, and Duncan McKillop, Convicted of art and part of Fire-raising and of Burning the Town of Ardochbeg, and for common Theft and 'Sornyng' - HANGED" ["Criminal Trials in Scotland from AD 1488 to AD 1724", Vol 1, Part 1, by Robert Pitcairn]. ('Sornyng' refers to abusing hospitality by exacting free board and lodgings by force or by threats; note also that the word "town" in this context means a farmstead, not a town in the modern sense of the word.) In 1625, Ardochbeg was among the properties "apprised" from a certain Thomas Fallasdaill (also spelled "Fallisdail", "Fallisdaill", etc.); in other words, it was valued and sold in order to pay off a debt; in this case, 1100 Scots merks (plus interest). (Fallasdaill, evidently a fairly quarrelsome man, was appointed Dumbarton's first provost in 1612 (a post which he would hold seven times in all); he supervised repair work in Dumbarton Castle in 1617 and again in 1618 ( https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1381295 ), and also oversaw work to protect Dumbarton from flooding by the River Leven [see "Dumbarton Castle" (I.M.M.MacPhail, 1979), pages 106-108, 181].) The house here was inhabited at the end of the Second World War, and was still called Ardochbeg. The name can be found on older Ordnance Survey maps. |
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