
The Galloway News had a centre-page spread featuring Audrey Connelly from Kirkandrews, recounting her life and times in the area. You can read the article online here.
The Galloway News had a centre-page spread featuring Audrey Connelly from Kirkandrews, recounting her life and times in the area. You can read the article online here.
The August 2021 edition of Dumfries & Galloway Life magazine has an article about the Borgue Field Names project.
It’s Tub-tastic 2021 and we will be displaying our flower tubs around Borgue again. This year, please label your tub using a slate with “Borgue Flower Show” painted on it. If you need a tub and/or a slate, please contact Angela on 01557 870202 or Jo on 01557 870149.
Hopefully there will be some Borgue Flower Show activities on Saturday, 14th August; a display, sale or miniature garden competition… WATCH THIS SPACE!
There will be an exhibition of the Borgue Field Names project at the Mill on the Fleet in Gatehouse from mid-June until the end of July. Many thanks to Ken Smyth from Mill on the Fleet for providing the space and preparing the excellent presentation materials. Click on the image below for more information.
New gates and bridges across watercourses have been installed along the route of Core Path 181 which goes from Kirkandrews to Carrick. This now allows access along the shore westwards from Kirkandrews without having to detour up onto the road near the Coo Palace.
The route passes the Iron Age fort at Castle Haven then goes around Castle Haven Bay before following a rocky course along the shoreline to meet the track that comes down from the road towards the Bathing House at Barlocco Beach.
Please take care when walking along this route as it has not been navigable for many years. Even though there are now new gates to navigate walls and fences, it will take some time before a footpath route between the gates is established. The section around the north-west side of Castle Haven Bay is quite boggy but can be circumvented by staying in the landward field and following the track that leads down to the shore, as shown in the image above. The fields along the route are home to a variety of different types of cattle so be very careful when crossing the fields and keep dogs under close control.
New web pages have been added to the site with photographs and descriptions of some of the more interesting field names in the Borgue area. Fields such as Cuddle Cosy, Hac Noose and Doon Yeard are described. You can see them by navigation to PLACE->Borgue Field Names then selecting the menu items for each field.
The locations of Curling Ponds in Galloway have been added to the Galloway Place Names map. To show the ponds on the map, load the map by clicking on the image above then choose: Features->Curling Ponds from the menu at the top of the map. You can click on the curling pond symbols to get more information about each pond. Most of these are no longer used for curling but it shows how popular curling was in the past, with each village having its own pond or loch that was used for the sport. I’m sure that there are many more of these so please send in any information on curling pond locations using the form below.