Gazetteer of Scotland

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tains, Isle of Skye. Its scenery is dis-
mally wild, dark, and stern, and is
graphically described by Sir Walter Scott
in his Lord of the Isles.
CORRYARRICK, steep lofty mountain-
ridge, from vicinity of Loch Oich to south-
west end of Monadhleadh Mountains, In-
verness-shire. It is traversed, in zigzag-
course, by the road from Fort-Augustus
into Badenoch ; and that road over it was
Prince Charles's route at commence-
ment of the rebellion in 1745. The height,
at highest summit, is 2922 feet ; at
summit of the pass, 1864 feet.
COEEYAUE, bleak barren hill-range in
Muthill parish, Perthshire.
COREYBEOUGH, seat in Moy parish,
Inverness-shire.
CORRYFEARN, hills in Eddertoun
parish, Ross-shire.
CORRYGILL, headland at south side of
Brodick Bay, Arran Island, Buteshire.
CORRYHABBIE, mountain, 2563 feet
high, 8 miles south-by-west of Dufftown,
Banffshire.
CORRYVARLEGAN, wild lofty mountain-
pass, on the way from Loch Hourn in
Inverness-shire to Glenshiel in Boss-shire.
CORSANCONE, Mil, 1547 feet high, in
New Cumnock parish, Argyleshire.
COESBIE, seat near Newton-Stewart,
"Wigtonshire.
COESBIE, barony in Legerwood parish,
Berwickshire.
COESE, seat in Forgue parish, Aberdeen-
shire.
COESE, hill, 21 miles west-by-north of
Aberdeen. Numerous small tumuli and
remains of military works are on it, and
are associated by tradition with the closing-
scenes of the career of Macbeth. Corse
Castle, in its vicinity, was built in 1581,
and is now a ruin.
COESEDAEDEE, hill in Birse parish,
Aberdeenshire.
COESEGLASS, place, with public school,
in Dairy parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
CORSEMILL, village, 3 miles south-east
of Paisley, Renfrewshire.
CORSEWALL, small headland, modern
mansion, and ruined strong ancient fort-
alice, in Kirkcolm parish, Wigtonshire.
The headland lies 2J miles west-south-
west of mouth of Loch Ryan, confronts the
North Channel, and has a lighthouse with
revolving light visible at the distance of
15 nautical miles.
CORSOCK, village and quoad sacra
parish in Kirkcudbrightshire. The village
stands on Urr river, 10 miles north of
Castle-Douglas, and has a post office under
Dalbeattie, an Established church and a
Free church. Corsock Castle is the ruined
seat of Robert Nelson, who figured pro-
minently among the persecuted Covenan-
ters. Corsock lake contains large trout,
and has two boats, but is preserved. Pop.
of the quoad sacra parish, 611.
CORSTON, hill -ridge in Kirknewton
parish, Edinburghshire.
CORSTORPHINE, village and parish in
the north-west of Edinburghshire. The
village stands 3J? miles west of Edinburgh,
is a summer resort of Edinburgh families,
commands a charming view to the Pent-
land Hills, and has a post office, with
money order and telegraph departments,
designated of Mid-Lothian, a railway sta-
tion, a second-pointed parochial church of
1492, a Free church, and a public school
with about 193 scholars. Pop. 952. — The
parish contains also the hamlets of Gogar,
Stanhope-Mills, and Four-Mile-Hill. Its
length is,about 4 miles ; its greatest breadth
about 2J miles ; its area 3654 acres. Real
property in 1880-81, £21,515. Pop. 2156.
Most of the surface is level ; but a ridge,
called Corstorphine Hill, extends from
the skirt of the village about f mile to a
wooded eastern crest about 474 feet high,
and commands there a superb view of
Edinburgh, and of the country eastward to
the German Ocean. The chief residences
are Corstorphine House, Clermiston,
Beechwood, Belmont, Ravelston, Gogar
House, Gogar Burn, and Gogar Mount.
CORTACHY, parish in north of Forfar-
shire, extending southward to within 3
miles of Kirriemuir. It has a post office
under Kirriemuir ; and it forms of itself
a quoad sacra parish, but is united politi-
cally to Clova. Acres of the united parish,
42,322. Real property in 1880-81, £7516.
Pop. 442. Length and greatest breadth
of Cortachy-Proper, 13 and 5J miles. Pop.
337. The surface consists mostly of a
portion of the Benchinnan Mountains, but
includes some meadow land along the
course of the South Esk. Cortachy
Castle, on that river, is the favourite seat
of the Earl of Airlie, and is partly ancient,
but chiefly modern. The parochial church
was built in 1829, and contains 650 sittings.
3 schools, with accommodation for 198
scholars, serve for Cortachy and Clova. See
Clova.
CORTES, estate with modern mansion
and ancient Caledonian stone circle, in
Ruthven parish, Aberdeenshire.
CORUISK. See Corriskin.
CORWAR, seat in Colmonell parish,
Ayrshire.
COSHEVILLE, place, with inn, 3J miles
north of Kenmore, Perthshire.
COSSINS, quondam old castle in Glam-
mis parish, Forfarshire.
COSTA, headland and hamlet at northern
extremity of Pomona, Orkney. The head-
land is the bold, precipitous, rocky face of
a considerable hill ; and the hamlet has a
public school with about 44 scholars.
COTBURN, hill in Turriff parish, Aber-
deenshire.
COTCHET, hill-ridge in Eccles parish,
Berwickshire.
COTHAL, place, with woollen mills, in
Fintray parish, Aberdeenshire.
COTHIEMUIR, hill, with ancient Cale-
donian stone circle, in Keig parish,.
Aberdeenshire.