The tinkler-gypsies . tallies best with Meg Merrilies proclamation : — Dark shall he 11^,^111 And wrong done to right When Bertrams right and Bertrams might Shall meet on EUangowan height. Further resemblances will be found in itsproximity to the rocky prominence known asThe Gaugers Loup, and in the fact thatclose to The Gangers Loup, ahiiost oppositeBarholm Castle and half-way down the descent,there still exists a fine spring well—correspond-ing with— the fine spring well about half-way down the descent,and which once supplied the castle with water. A remarkable coincidence is also containedi
The tinkler-gypsies . tallies best with Meg Merrilies proclamation : — Dark shall he 11^,^111 And wrong done to right When Bertrams right and Bertrams might Shall meet on EUangowan height. Further resemblances will be found in itsproximity to the rocky prominence known asThe Gaugers Loup, and in the fact thatclose to The Gangers Loup, ahiiost oppositeBarholm Castle and half-way down the descent,there still exists a fine spring well—correspond-ing with— the fine spring well about half-way down the descent,and which once supplied the castle with water. A remarkable coincidence is also containedin the statement : And several of her tribe made oath in her ( MegMerrilies ) behalf that she had never quitted her encamp-ment, which was in a glen about ten miles distant fromEUangowan. The site of that encampment would correspondprecisely with Palnure Glen, which, as has beenshown in a previous chapter, was a favouriterendezvous of the Marshall gang and is tei\miles distant from Barholm Castle. ^i^ A^ •- Photo by J. P. >lilnes. JuLrA Mannering at Ellangowan CBarholm CastleX From a Paintins: l>y the late Mr .Tohn Kaey whose kind vemiissiou it is here tvprvxluoeJ. ??Guy Ma/i/iering Gakvegian Localities. 109 Be it remembered also that Train (an Ayrshireman) was stationed at Newton-Stewart until 15thDecember, 1820, five years later than the publica-tion of Guy Ma?inering, and any informatiorrsupplied by him or the MCuUoch family wouldbe far more likely to refer to the DirkHatteraicks Cave, and other places in andaround Ravenshall, than to the Torrs Cave oreven further afield. There are also references,such as— Frank Kennedys Ijeing away round to Wigtown towarn a Kings ship thats lying in the bay about DirkHatteraicks lugger being on the coast again, and hellbe back this day, and about Dirks lugger standing across thebay which rather suggest the idea
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