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From: "Shirley Walsh" <>
Subject: Challachmun, Pont's map, Challochmun, Moll's map
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:35:53 +0930


Challachmun is shown on Pont's map (Old Glenluce parish)
just north of "Old Sunoness", but Pont wrote the place-names as they were pronounced at the time.
http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/counties.cfm?id=95

Challochmun is shown on Ainslie's map c.1782
just north of "Synnyness Castle in ruins" of Earl of Stair (Dalrymple)
and Auchenmalg of Rev. Adair which was at Auchenmalg Bay.
http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/counties.cfm?id=685



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