Bogside
Bogside # CRA S NO546100 1 105m
Bogside 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn
Sc bog + Sc side
‘(Farm) beside a bog’, although the eponymous bog has now been drained. In the 1850s it was ‘a dwelling of a mean description with some outhouses, all thatched, and a small farm containing about 20 acres of arable land, attached to the property of Mr Hannay of Kingsmuir’ (OS Name Book 22, 35).
The name is not recorded on the OS 6 inch 1st revision, 1888–1914.
This place-name appeared in printed volume 3