Talk:Kirkcudbrightshire

message: Just a quibble, but I was brought up to believe that if it wasn't over 3,000 ft (and on mr. munro's table) it was a hill, with only a couple of exceptions like the cobbler and goat fell..dave souza 17:11, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: The coordinates need the following fixes: Link error for integer longitude/latitude.
The website www.streetmap.co.uk will not display a map when integer values are used for longitude and latitude.
For example, the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkcudbrightshire has this coordinate link (near the top-right corner):
http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Kirkcudbrightshire¶ms=55_00_N_4_00_W_region:GB_type:adm2nd_source:GNS-enwiki
The stable.toolserver.org page for 55_00_N_4_00_W has this invalid link to www.streetmap.co.uk:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newsearch.srf?mapp=newmap&searchp=newsearch&name=55,-4&Submit1=search&type=LatLong
It can be corrected by using adding ".0" to the longitude and latitude:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newsearch.srf?mapp=newmap&searchp=newsearch&name=55.0,-4.0&Submit1=search&type=LatLong
The code that generates links to www.streetmap.co.uk needs to be fixed.
Quantile (talk) 18:22, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinates 

message: Historic place names from the Gaelic abound in the Stewartry but is there any evidence in the records of the phrase 'Stewartry of Kirkcudbright' rendered in Gaelic?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JF42 (talk • contribs) 14:40, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the term "Stewartry" describes a political structure that would not have existed during the medieval time period when Gaelic was the language of political administration (so to speak) in this area.  Furthermore, Gaelic speakers would more likely have kept written records of tax collection (to which terms describing areas of political administration, like "stewartry," would be relevant) in Latin than in Gaelic.  As I recall, Alfred the Great was the first ruler in the British Isles to establish a system of political administration based on records kept in a language other than Latin (and Kirkcudbrightshire was part of the Danelaw and thus less influenced by Alfred).  There may be references from the Gaelic-speaking era in this region (in Latin, but possibly also in Gaelic) to the parish of St. Cuthbert, which may or may not have been approximately coextensive with the Stewartry.  But it would not be surprising if there were no such references in existence today, since there would have to have been a reason to preserve the manuscripts for more than a thousand years.  (There is no Gaelic in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Gaelic-speaking rulers may have thought in terms of familial relationships first and geography second.)  -- Bob (Bob99 (talk) 20:47, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gaelic version 

message: The history section is very out of date and includes much tendentious material, particularly reference to Scandinavian influence, the Gall-Gaels and the name of Galloway. In 2011, any sentence with the word 'slew' in it should be immediately viewed as suspect. This section should be redrafted.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JF42 (talk • contribs) 14:50, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: From the Early History section:
:"After the Norsemen conquered southern the fate of the rest of the kingdom is unclear."
Conquered southern what? Please elucidate.
--Oldontarian (talk) 12:31, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It wasn't at all clear, I agree. I've removed the two paragraphs because they largely talk about Galloway, rather than Kirkcudbrightshire. Without knowing what the Norse conquered and when, we don't have much context. Sionk (talk) 14:58, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Word or phrase missing. 

message: "the evidence is against there ever having been a prolonged effective Roman occupation. There was a Roman temporary marching camp at Shawhead, Irongray Parish."
A series of three Roman forts has been identified on the River Dee at Glenlochar (Balmaghie).
:https://canmore.org.uk/site/64687/glenlochar
:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenlochar
JF42 (talk) 23:11, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roman occupation 

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