N. Colmore Gyrcarling Fatagravure Print

I got into another box of the Colmore material and found this print of the fatagravure plate I recently posted. Like the fatagavure, it was heavily damaged, possibly in the fire, but I've been able to get a much better image after some tweaking. I also found some etymological clues.

The word does not show up when you search for it in the DOST, Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, (as previously noted) but it does occur in the entry for "boggle". It also appears in two variants in "a very long list of folkloric supernatural creatures in the writings of Michael Aislabie Denham (d.1859)" "...swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins Gyre-carling, pigmies, chittifaces, nixies,,,," Denham was an early folklorist who concentrated on Northumberland, Durham, Westmoreland, Cumberland, the Isle of Man, and Scotland.

The wikipedia entry for gyrfalcon says "The name comes from French gerfaucon, and is written in mediaeval Latin as gyrofalco. The first part of the word may come from Old High German gîr (= modern German Geier) = "vulture",..."
The "carling" part seems to come from Scots, "A woman, especially an old one", also Old French calingue, and from Old Norse kerling, old woman (Old French, from Old Norse).]

So I believe what we are seeing is a vulture woman, something akin to a harpy. I believe this clearer image confirms my theory. Many thanks to those who commented with clues and suggestions.

*printed in volume 2 of "The Denham Tracts" [ed. James Hardy, London: Folklore Society, 1895], a compilation of Denham's scattered publications. (source: Online Etymology Dictionary)