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Trabboch is a hamlet in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Built as a miners village in the 1880s,^[1] it was owned and leased by Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. and at one time had 94 dwellings. The miners rows stood, until demolition in 1969,^[1] on the Stair and Littlemill road, about two miles south of Stair, in that parish. The name is locally pronounced 'Traaboch'.

History

Etymology

The name Trabboch was first attested in 1303 as Trebathe,^[2] and it has a Brittonic origin.^[3] The first part of the name is the element treβ-, denoting a habitation and the land associated with it (Welsh tref "a town", traditionally "a farm").^[3] The second element could be either -*bedu meaning "birch trees" (Welsh bedw),^[3] or -*beδ, "a grave" (Welsh bedd).^[3] The present form shows influence from the Gaelic element beitheach meaning "of birches".^[3] Trabeattie, near Torthorwald in Dumfrieshire may have the same etymology.^[3]

The Village and coal mines

The mining settlement was made up of four rows, one of 40 and three of 18 houses each, with a population of around 430.^[4] The Trabboch pit closed in 1908 and the Drumdow pit closed a few years later.^[1] Nearby Trabboch House was home to the proprietor of the coal pits.^[1] The workings form a sizeable new 'loch' and the waste material bings are still a prominent feature. Many of the villagers were moved to Drongan when the miners rows were demolished.

After the closure of the local mines for a time some of the miners caught the train to Skares where they worked at Whitehill Colliery whilst others found work at Burnockhill Colliery that was located in the locality.^[5]

Trabboch Hamlet

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Location of the hamlet of Trabboch, East Ayrshire

Stair school

Stair school opened in 1863 and was located in Trabboch, it always served as the Village Hall and later served as the Stair Community Centre.^[6] The school became a Junior Secondary with as many as 150-200 pupils, closing its doors in 1969, Miss Brown being the last headteacher.^[1]

Trabboch Castle and Barony

The hamlet is also known for the old castle in the area, Trabboch Castle. The lands of Trabboch are first recorded by name in a rental of 1303–4. King Robert the Bruce gave the castle to the Boyds of Kilmarnock for services rendered at the Battle of Bannockburn. By 1451 the lands had passed into the hands of William, Earl of Douglas^[7] and later to the Boswells of Auchinleck.^[8] In the 17th century Chalmers of Gadgirth and Reid of Barskimming held parts of the Barony of Trabboch.^[9] The associated Mill of Trabboch stood on the Water of Coyle and was not powered by the loch waters. Trabboch Mains is a farm that was built mainly using stone taken from the nearby Trabboch Castle.

Trabboch Station

Trabboch railway station was situated on the Ayr and Cumnock Branch of the Glasgow and South Western Railway. The station was originally part of the Ayr and Cumnock Branch on the Glasgow and South Western Railway. The station opened in 1872, and closed on 10 September 1951.

The Trabboch Lochs

Trabboch Loch^[10] is nearby, formed from the flooded mineworkings of Drumdow Colliery in the late 19th century. The Loch of Trabboch was an ancient glacial loch, later a curling pond and the remnant is a wetland, important for birdlife.

The Shaw Kirk or Stair Free Church

The Schaw or Shaw Kirk is now ruinous (2011) having been built in 1843-4 close to the Shaw Burn on the parish boundary and abandoned in 1956 when a new church was built in Drongan following the demolition of the miner's rows and the transfer of the inhabitants to Drongan.^[11] It was expanded in the 1890s with an attractive wooden porch added and a new wing built o the east making it cross shaped. Two associated buildings stood to the north where the entrance to the nearby business now runs. Its final use was as a store for a local farm. The manse still stands as a private house on the road running up to Trabboch Burn.

Micro-history

An SS Trabboch was sunk in 1914 by the German Light Cruiser Emden in the Indian Ocean.^[12]

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Barber, Page 13
^ Watson, William John (1926). The history of the Celtic place-names of Scotland (Irish University Press 1973 ed.). Birlinn. p. 362. ISBN 1906566356.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f James, Alan. "A Guide to the Place-Name Evidence" (PDF). SPNS - The Brittonic Language in the Old North. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
^ Ayrshire History Retrieved : 2011-04-22
^ Love (2016), p.263
^ Stair Community Centre Retrieved : 2011-04-25
^ RCAHMS Retrieved : 2011-04-17
^ Coventry, Page 54
^ Paterson, Page 634
^ Ayrshire Birding Archived 2011-09-04 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved : 2011-04-22
^ Love, Page 202
^ Barber, Page 16.

Sources

Adamson, Archibald R. (1879). Rambles through the Land of Burns. Kilmarnock : Dunlop & Drennan.
Barber, Derek (2000). Steps through Stair. Stair Parish Church.
Campbell, Thorbjørn (2003). Ayrshire. A Historical Guide. Edinburgh : Birlinn. ISBN 1-84158-267-0.
Coventry, Martin (2010). Castles of the Clans. Musselburgh : Goblinshead. ISBN 1-899874-36-4.
Love, Dane (2003). Ayrshire : Discovering a County. Ayr : Fort Publishing. ISBN 0-9544461-1-9.
Love, Dane (2016). Ayrshire's Lost Villages. Auchinleck : Carn Publishing. ISBN 978-1-911043-02-7.
Paterson, James (1863–66). History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton. V. 2 - Part 2 - Kyle. Edinburgh: J. Stillie.

55°28′07″N 4°26′37″W / 55.46874°N 4.44354°W / 55.46874; -4.44354

External links

[B-1] Barber, Page 13

[2] Watson, William John (1926). The history of the Celtic place-names of Scotland (Irish University Press 1973 ed.). Birlinn. p. 362. ISBN 1906566356.

[bliton-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f James, Alan. "A Guide to the Place-Name Evidence" (PDF). SPNS - The Brittonic Language in the Old North. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2018.

[4] Ayrshire History Retrieved : 2011-04-22

[5] Love (2016), p.263

[6] Stair Community Centre Retrieved : 2011-04-25

[7] RCAHMS Retrieved : 2011-04-17

[8] Coventry, Page 54

[9] Paterson, Page 634

[10] Ayrshire Birding Archived 2011-09-04 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved : 2011-04-22

[11] Love, Page 202

[B16-12] Barber, Page 16.

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-'''Trabboch''' is a hamlet in [[East Ayrshire]], [[Scotland]]. Built as a miners village in the 1880s,<ref name="B"/> it was owned and leased by Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. and at one time had 94 dwellings. The miners rows stood, until demolition in 1969,<ref name="B"/> on the Stair and Littlemill road, about two miles south of [[Stair]], in that parish.
+'''Trabboch''' is a hamlet in [[East Ayrshire]], Scotland. Built as a miners village in the 1880s,<ref name="B"/> it was owned and leased by Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. and at one time had 94 dwellings. The miners rows stood, until demolition in 1969,<ref name="B"/> on the Stair and Littlemill road, about two miles south of [[Stair, East Ayrshire|Stair]], in that parish. The name is locally pronounced 'Traaboch'.
-[[File:Loch of Trabboch site and the Dalrympleston Burn.JPG|thumb|200px|The site of the old Loch of Trabboch.]]
+[[File:Loch of Trabboch site and the Dalrympleston Burn.JPG|thumb|300px|The site of the old Loch of Trabboch.]]
 ==History==
+===Etymology===
-;The Village and coal mines
+The name ''Trabboch'' was first attested in 1303 as ''Trebathe'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Watson |first1=William John |title=The history of the Celtic place-names of Scotland |date=1926 |publisher=Birlinn |isbn=1906566356 |page=362 |edition=Irish University Press 1973 |ref=cpns}}</ref> and it has a [[Common Brittonic|Brittonic]] origin.<ref name="bliton">{{cite web |last1=James |first1=Alan |title=A Guide to the Place-Name Evidence |url=http://spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alan_James_Brittonic_Language_in_the_Old_North_BLITON_Volume_II_Dictionary.pdf |website=SPNS - The Brittonic Language in the Old North |accessdate=25 November 2018 |archive-date=13 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813011121/http://spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alan_James_Brittonic_Language_in_the_Old_North_BLITON_Volume_II_Dictionary.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The first part of the name is the element ''treβ-'', denoting a habitation and the land associated with it ([[Welsh language|Welsh]] ''tref'' "a town", traditionally "a farm").<ref name="bliton" /> The second element could be either ''-*bedu'' meaning "birch trees" (Welsh ''bedw''),<ref name="bliton" /> or ''-*beδ'', "a grave" (Welsh ''bedd'').<ref name="bliton" /> The present form shows influence from the [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] element ''beitheach'' meaning "of birches".<ref name="bliton" /> [[Trabeattie]], near [[Torthorwald]] in [[Dumfrieshire]] may have the same etymology.<ref name="bliton" />
+===The Village and coal mines===
 The mining settlement was made up of four rows, one of 40 and three of 18 houses each, with a population of around 430.<ref>[http://www.ayrshirehistory.org.uk/Bibliography/monos/amr6.htm Ayrshire History] Retrieved : 2011-04-22</ref> The Trabboch pit closed in 1908 and the Drumdow pit closed a few years later.<ref name="B">Barber, Page 13</ref> Nearby Trabboch House was home to the proprietor of the coal pits.<ref name="B"/> The workings form a sizeable new 'loch' and the waste material bings are still a prominent feature. Many of the villagers were moved to [[Drongan]] when the miners rows were demolished.
+After the closure of the local mines for a time some of the miners caught the train to Skares where they worked at Whitehill Colliery whilst others found work at Burnockhill Colliery that was located in the locality.<ref>Love (2016), p.263</ref>
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-;Stair school
-Stair school opened in 1863 and was located in Trabboch, it always served as the Village Hall and later served as a community centre. The school became a Junior Secondary with as many as 150-200 pupils, closing its doors in 1969, Miss Brown being the last headteacher.<ref name="B"/>
+===Stair school===
-;Trabboch Castle and Barony
+Stair school opened in 1863 and was located in Trabboch, it always served as the Village Hall and later served as the Stair Community Centre.<ref>[http://www.staircommunitycentre.co.uk/ Stair Community Centre] Retrieved : 2011-04-25</ref> The school became a Junior Secondary with as many as 150-200 pupils, closing its doors in 1969, Miss Brown being the last headteacher.<ref name="B"/>
+===Trabboch Castle and Barony===
 [[File:Trabboch Old School and flooded mine workings.JPG|left|thumb|200px|The old school Community Centre and Trabboch Loch, from the old railway station.]]
-The village is also known for the two castles in the area, [[Loch of Trabboch|Trabboch Castle]] and Mains Castle. The lands of Trabboch are first recorded by name in a rental of 1303-4. King [[Robert the Bruce]] gave the castle to the Boyds of Kilmarnock for services rendered at the [[Battle of Bannockburn]]. By 1451 the lands had passed into the hands of William, Earl of Douglas<ref>[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/42739/details/trabboch+castle/ RCAHMS] Retrieved : 2011-04-17</ref> and later to the Boswells of Auchinleck.<ref>Coventry, Page 54</ref> In the 17th century Chalmers of Gadgirth and Reid of Barskimming held parts of the Barony of Trabboch.<ref>Paterson, Page 634</ref> The associated Mill of Trabboch stood on the Water of Coyle and was not powered by the loch waters. Trabboch Mains is a farm that was built mainly using stone taken from the nearby Trabboch Castle.
+The hamlet is also known for the old castle in the area, [[Trabboch Castle]]. The lands of Trabboch are first recorded by name in a rental of 1303–4. King [[Robert the Bruce]] gave the castle to the Boyds of Kilmarnock for services rendered at the [[Battle of Bannockburn]]. By 1451 the lands had passed into the hands of William, Earl of Douglas<ref>[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/42739/details/trabboch+castle/ RCAHMS] Retrieved : 2011-04-17</ref> and later to the Boswells of Auchinleck.<ref>Coventry, Page 54</ref> In the 17th century Chalmers of Gadgirth and Reid of Barskimming held parts of the Barony of Trabboch.<ref>Paterson, Page 634</ref> The associated Mill of Trabboch stood on the Water of Coyle and was not powered by the loch waters. Trabboch Mains is a farm that was built mainly using stone taken from the nearby Trabboch Castle.
-; Trabboch Station
+===Trabboch Station===
+[[File:Trabboch House - geograph.org.uk - 728865.jpg|thumb|200px|Trabboch House.]]
 [[Trabboch railway station]] was situated on the Ayr and Cumnock Branch of the Glasgow and South Western Railway. The station was originally part of the Ayr and Cumnock Branch on the Glasgow and South Western Railway. The station opened in 1872, and closed on 10 September 1951.
-;Trabboch Loch
+===The Trabboch Lochs===
-Trabboch Loch<ref>[http://www.ayrshire-birding.org.uk/index.php/where-to-watch-birds/east-ayrshire/27-cumnock/77-trabboch-loch-and-stair- Ayrshire Birding] Retrieved : 2011-04-22</ref> is nearby, formed from the flooded mineworkings of Drumdow Colliery in the late 19th century. The [[Loch of Trabboch]] was an ancient glacial loch, later a curling pond and the remnant is a wetland, important for birdlife.
+Trabboch Loch<ref>[http://www.ayrshire-birding.org.uk/index.php/where-to-watch-birds/east-ayrshire/27-cumnock/77-trabboch-loch-and-stair- Ayrshire Birding] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904201030/http://www.ayrshire-birding.org.uk/index.php/where-to-watch-birds/east-ayrshire/27-cumnock/77-trabboch-loch-and-stair- |date=2011-09-04 }} Retrieved : 2011-04-22</ref> is nearby, formed from the flooded mineworkings of Drumdow Colliery in the late 19th century. The [[Loch of Trabboch]] was an ancient glacial loch, later a curling pond and the remnant is a wetland, important for birdlife.
+===The Shaw Kirk or Stair Free Church===
+The Schaw or Shaw Kirk is now ruinous (2011) having been built in 1843-4 close to the Shaw Burn on the parish boundary and abandoned in 1956 when a new church was built in [[Drongan]] following the demolition of the miner's rows and the transfer of the inhabitants to Drongan.<ref>Love, Page 202</ref> It was expanded in the 1890s with an attractive wooden porch added and a new wing built o the east making it cross shaped. Two associated buildings stood to the north where the entrance to the nearby business now runs. Its final use was as a store for a local farm. The manse still stands as a private house on the road running up to Trabboch Burn.
 ==Micro-history==
-An SS Trabboch was sunk in 1914 by the German Light Cruiser ''Emden'' in the Indian Ocean.<ref name="B">Barber, Page 16.</ref>
+An SS Trabboch was sunk in 1914 by the German Light Cruiser ''Emden'' in the Indian Ocean.<ref name="B16">Barber, Page 16.</ref>
 ==References==
 [[File:Stair Church, Ayrshire.JPG|thumb|200px|Trabboch Parish church.]]
+[[File:William Brown - Trabboch Mill.JPG|thumb|200px|William Brown, the miller at Trabboch Mill.]]
 ; Notes
 {{Reflist}}
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 # Adamson, Archibald R. (1879). Rambles through the Land of Burns. Kilmarnock : Dunlop & Drennan.
 # Barber, Derek (2000). ''Steps through Stair''. Stair Parish Church.
-# Coventry, Martin (2010). Castles of the Clans. Musselburgh : Goblinshead. ISBN 1-899874-36-4
+# Campbell, Thorbjørn (2003). ''Ayrshire. A Historical Guide''. Edinburgh : Birlinn. {{ISBN|1-84158-267-0}}.
+# Coventry, Martin (2010). Castles of the Clans. Musselburgh : Goblinshead. {{ISBN|1-899874-36-4}}.
-# Paterson, James (1863–66). History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton. V. 2 - Part 2 - Kyle. Edinburgh: J. Stillie.
+# Love, Dane (2003). ''Ayrshire : Discovering a County''. Ayr : Fort Publishing. {{ISBN|0-9544461-1-9}}.
+# Love, Dane (2016). ''Ayrshire's Lost Villages''. Auchinleck : Carn Publishing. {{ISBN|978-1-911043-02-7}}.
+# [[James Paterson (journalist)|Paterson, James]] (1863–66). History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton. V. 2 - Part 2 - Kyle. Edinburgh: J. Stillie.
 {{coord|55.46874|N|4.44354|W|type:city(50)_region:GB|display=title}}
 ==External links==
+{{commons category|Trabboch}}
-* [http://www.francisfrith.com/trabboch/ Memories of Trabboch]]
+{{commons category|Loch of Trabboch}}
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRzfJXXJElA Video footage of Trabboch railway station site]
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXIgvDSW_zM Video footage of the old Trabboch Village site]
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oixjp_8OFkw Video footage and narration - Free Church of Stair]
+* [http://www.francisfrith.com/trabboch/ Memories of Trabboch]
 * [http://clanboyd.info/history/trabboch/ Clan boyd and Trabboch Castle]
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