When King Fergus defeated and killed Coel, King of the Britons, he was buried in a mound topped with stones - which is now in the grounds of Coilsfield House. There are many different spellings of his name, which presumably all derive from the same figure: Cul, Coel, Coil, Cole... (maybe deriving from the celtic god of war?)
Robert Burns knew this version of the rhyme:
Our auld King Coul was a jolly auld soul
and a jolly auld soul was he
Our auld King Coul fill'd a jolly brown bowl
and he called for his fiddlers three
Fidell didell, fidell didell quo' the fiddlers
There's no lass in a' Scotland like our sweet Marjorie (from Westwood's 'Albion')
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Posted by Rhiannon
21st April 2004ce
Edited 21st April 2004ce
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