PUN BRAE

[morag]

I think Wellpark has it right, pun from mid. English pund where we get pound from, all we have to get is the Wrae part noo!

[bobbydarg]

Have a look at my post on the previous page Morag. I tend to think the University of Glasgow may be spot on. The location seems to fit the description very well.

[morag]

Bobby, don't know how I missed your post, except my pc is driving me nuts right now... I should take lessons... ..really.

[bobbydarg]

"You should have gone to specsavers"

[little plum]

Just to help those who are not familiar with the area.

[morag]

I don't think I'll recognise Stevenston when I get back...

[little plum]

As you can see, the "High Kirk" is still there

[ellenyoung31]

Hello Little Plum.
My Robert wonders is mill Hill still called that. it was up the side
of the High Kirk coming out at the corner houses on the same
side as the church. My cousin George Mclelland's Granny Boyd
staid in one. I remember coming up it when I was wee and wondering
where we were coming out. I was surprised it came out at Mrs Boyd's. Ellen.

[little plum]

Hi Ellen, do you mean the lane that runs from Townhead to Glencairn St., I tend to refer to it as, going up the mill dam.

[bobbydarg]

I took this photo of the mill dam with the mill stones at the bottom near the cross.And an old photo of the cottages at the mill hill.

[bobbydarg]

The local historians at North Ayrshire have come up with
Pun Wrae means Chief's Fort and this refers to the hill on which the High Kirk Church now stands, which in the olden times was the stronghold of a chief. Stevenston does not have another site which was suitable for defence or in more modern times worship.

[John Donnelly]

Bobbydarg,

Re your post of the 10th July.

I think you'll find that the cottages pictured are of the Brekkleshyuck or Breakplough, which runs from Lockhart Rd. to the Kerlaw road just beside Kerlaw Mains farm. The picture is taken facing towards the farm, with the photographer's back towards Lockhart Rd.

JD.