Cumnock History Group is researching the history of farms in Cumnock, Auchinleck, New Cumnock and Ochiltree with the support of Heritage Lottery Fund and Coalfield Communites Landscape Partnership. The resulting book Ploughing Up Our Past is in the Cumnock History Group shop https://cumnockhistorygroup.org/product/the-ploughing-up-our-past-book/
High Shaw a remote hill sheep farm south of Muirkirk on the Polwhannan Burn
1861 census Robert Reid 40 shepherd with wife Jean and 5 year old son James
1881 census John Murdoch was a 27 year old shepherd there with wife Jessie (Lambie) 25 and 2 small children and a12 year old servant girl
1901 Thomas Weir shepherd age 26 and wife Annie
