<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c96cf179-8cd0-4da1-a808-a6d567f2f2a0/4340B594-4D47-47CE-BC51-51B2E236769E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.visittherhins.co.uk/stranraer.html" href="http://www.visittherhins.co.uk/stranraer.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.visittherhins.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.visittherhins.co.uk/stranraer.html">The meaning behind Stranraer's name is centred around the town burn with Stran- as sruthán (Scottish Gaelic) meaning 'streamlet' or 'burn'. The second syllable -raer is either from reamhar (Scottish Gaelic) or ramhar (Irish Gaelic), both meaning 'fat' or 'thick'. So Stranraer is 'thick burn'. Or is it? Ramhar (Irish Gaelic) can also mean 'swarming' (as in with fish) so Stranraer could be 'burn swarming with fish' - this makes sense as the burn used to be an excellent place to fish.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.visittherhins.co.uk/stranraer.html">Stranraer was first mentioned in the 14th century though there may have been a settlement here from as early as Roman times when a Roman road ran from Gatehouse of Fleet, via Dunragit, to Stranraer and continued up towards Cairnryan.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.visittherhins.co.uk/stranraer.html"><P>Stranraer's life as a town really began in 1595 when Ninian Adair applied to King James VI to give Stranraer trading rights and a market. In the 17th and 18th centuries the town quickly expanded due to trade in textiles, tanning and fishing.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4340B594-4D47-47CE-BC51-51B2E236769E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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