List of Ayrshire place-names beginning with 'J'
Jellieston
Dalmellington (DAL)
Classification: Settlement
Grid reference: NS417103
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 156m
Elements: pn Gillies + Sc toun
Jellieston Pit (No. 1, Pumping)
Dalmellington (DAL)
Classification: Other
Grid reference: NS419102
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 165m
Elements: en Jellieston + SSE pit
Description:
Jellieston No. 1 was a coal pit worked in 1865 at a depth of 70 fathoms (Smith 1967, 237).
Jellieston Pit (No. 2, Coal)
Dalmellington (DAL)
Classification: Other
Grid reference: NS421103
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 189m
Elements: en Jellieston + SSE pit
Description:
Jellieston No. 2 was a coal pit, which was in operation between 1867 and 1902. It was 110 fathoms deep (Smith 1967, 237).
Jenny's Thorn
New Cumnock (NCU)
Classification: Vegetation
Grid reference: NS597106
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 256m
Elements: pn Jenny + SSE thorn
Description:
‘A hawthorn associated with a girl or woman called Jenny’. Robert Guthrie, in his entry for Jenny’s Thorn on NCU website suggests that Jenny does not allude to an individual of that name but to a generic term for a country girl, the female equivalent of Jock (see Jock’s Hags NCU). He has usefully collected all Jenny names from the neighbouring counties of Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire in the OS Name Books. All have non-settlement generics, namely burn, cairn, dyke, hill, pool and wood. He suggests it might have been a trysting tree, although as, he points out, it is not a very likely meeting place for courting couples. This is clear from the photo of the farm of Brockloch on the website. See Jenny’s Thorn – NEW CUMNOCK HISTORY.
With no explanation of who the eponymous Jenny was, the OS Name Book describes this as: 'A small thorn bush on Brockloch farm N.E of the house' (OS1/3/49/127). It is shown as late as the 1957 1:10560 map.
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Jock's Hags
New Cumnock (NCU)
Classification: Relief
Grid reference: NS612057
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 514m
Elements: pn Jock + Sc hag
Description:
'Hags associated with a boy or man called Jock', probably where Jock cut his peats, as Sc hag often refers to a place where peat is cut. However, Robert Guthrie, in his entry for Jock’s Hags on the NCU website suggests that Jock does not allude to an individual of that name but to a generic term for a country lad, the male equivalent of Jenny (see Jenny’s Thorn NCU). He has usefully collected all Jock names from neighbouring Dumfriesshire from the OS Name Books. All have non-settlement generics, namely cleugh, grain, knowe, pool, sike, stane and thorn.
The OS Name Book gives no indication as to Jock’s identity, having only: ‘A Small Moss on the footpath side - leading from Pencloe to Glenlee’ (OS1/3/49/184).
There is a discussion of this name along with a picture of the place itself on Jock’s Hags – NEW CUMNOCK HISTORY.