The monks played an important part in developing the area by improving the drainage, growing new crops and by promoting animal husbandry at such places the Friars' Carse grange and elsewhere.

[3] The 1855 OS map shows a rectangular grave yard in the fields off a minor road to the north of Fardingwell Farm.

a most worthy gentleman and warm friend: who died the last heir-male of that antient and respectable family on September XVII MDCCLXVII (AD1767) in the LXIX year of his age.

(AD1770)" A number of the larger burial plots are still demarcated by cast iron railings, usually removed during the WW2 but retained in this remote spot.

[6] Dunscore old Kirk burial ground is associated with the Covenanters through the presence of the memorial to Sir Robert Grierson the 'Cruel Lag' persecutor of local adherents to the Covenant.

[7] The Laird of Lag's (Sir Robert Grierson) Tomb is located (NX 9267 8323) within the burial ground of the family, standing against the back wall of the mausoleum of the Ferguson's of Isle Tower.

[1] Another link is a carved red sandstone block bearing the date 1649 and the inscription "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts to me"..[1]