The Den was a hamlet on the main road between Beith and Dalry – it had it’s own school, bank and shops, Episcopal church etc and was demolished in the 1900s. You can see the pictures above of the Co-op and School which was known as Kersland Barony.
The Den (Barkip) was largely replaced with the Lambert which became known as the Lambar, then langbar and subsequently “corrected” to Longbar by the council. It is easy to see how that could have happened with the number of Northern Irish accents around at that time.
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