Gazetteer of Scotland

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Caputh, became separate in 1500, and is
now united to Dunkeld ; and it comprises
a main body of 6 miles along the Tay, and
a detached district of about f- mile along
the Tummel. Acres of Dowally and Dun-
keld, 9456. Eeal property in 1880-81,
£3350. Pop. 791. The main body con-
sists of a belt of low ground contiguous
to the Tay, and a wooded range of over-
hanging heights ; and includes the pictur-
esque rocky hills of Craigiebarns and
Craigievinean, together with the King's
pass.
DOWALTON, fine lake, with island, 2$
miles west of Garlieston, "Wigtonshire.
DO WALT Y, hill- ridge in Banchory -
Ternan parish, Kincardineshire.
DOWANHILL, handsome new suburb
immediately west of Hillhead, Glasgow.
It contains the city observatory, and a
United Presbyterian church.
DOWANVALE, suburb of Partick, Glas-
gow. It has a Free church, erected in
1880-81, and fronting Dowanhill.
DOWGLEN, burn in Westerkirk parish,
Dumfriesshire.
DOWIE DENS, quondam moor, now en-
closed and cultivated, near Yarrow church,
Selkirkshire. It was the scene of some
dismal event commemorated in a famous
ancient ballad, and it formerly had upwards
of 20 large cairns, but has now no other
antiquity than two large unhewn stones.
DOWN, hill in Dunbar parish, Hadding-
tonshire.
DOWN, conical verdant hill in Fossaway
parish, Perthshire.
DOWN, curious hillock, with vertical
rocky front, in Fintiy parish, Stirlingshire.
DOWNAN, place, with old burying-
ground, in Inveraven parish, Banffshire.
DOWNFIELD, village in Mains parish,
Forfarshire. It has a post office, with
money order department, under Dundee,
and a public school with about 75 scholars.
Pop. 349.
DOWNFIELD, hill, with ruined ancient
fortification, in Kettle parish, Fife.
DOWNIE, hill-ridge in Monikie parish,
Forfarshire.
DOWNIE, bold headland at south side of
Stonehaven Bay, Kincardineshire.
DOWNIE PARK, seat in Tannadice parish ,
Forfarshire.
DOWNIES, fishing village, 6 miles north-
west of Stonehaven, Kincardineshire.
DRAFFAN, quondam castle, supposed
to have been Danish, in Dunino parish,
Fife.
DRAFFAN, place in Lesmahagow parish,
Lanarkshire. It has a public school with
about 112 scholars.
DRAGON-HOLE, cave on face of Kinnoul
Hill, near Perth.
DRAINIE, parish containing Lossiemouth
town, Branderburgh and Seatown suburbs,
and Stotfield village, on coast of Elginshire.
Its length is about 4 miles ; its breadth
about 2 miles ; its area 6949 acres. Real
property in 1880-81, £12,100. Pop. 3991.
Part of the coast is flat and low, and part
is bold and rocky. A foreshore about a
mile broad is at the low part ; and a reef
with skerry, at about a mile's distance,
lies parallel to the bold part. The interior,
except at the bold part of the coast, is low
and nearly level. Caves are on the coast,
and the site of the strong ancient castle of
Kinnedder adjoins the churchyard. The
parochial church stands in a central posi-
tion, and contains 700 sittings ; and Estab-
lished, Free, and United Presbyterian
churches are at Lossiemouth. 4 schools
for 731 scholars are in the parish, and 2 of
them for 485 are new.
DRAKEMUIR, village in Dairy parish,
Ayrshire. Pop. 325.
DREAMBEG, place on the coast, near
mouth of Kyle-Skou,in west of Sutherland.
DREEL, burn entering Firth of Forth
at Anstruther, Fife.
DREGHORN, village and parish in Cun-
ningham district, Ayrshire. The village
stands 2 miles east of Irvine, commands
a fine view, and has a post office with
money order department, designated of
Ayrshire, a railway station, a parochial
church, an Evangelical Union chapel,
and a public school with about 378
scholars. Pop. 928. —The parish con-
tains also Overton and Perceton villages,
and most of Bankhead town. Its length
is about 8 miles ; its breadth from f mile
to 2 miles ; its area 5626 acres. Real pro-
perty in 1879-80, £25,858. Pop. 3949.
The land at the south-west end, only a
mile from the coast, is a low dead flat ; it
rises thence, in gentle undulations, toward
the east and north-east ; and it is nearly
all arable and luxuriant. Coal is exten-
sively worked, and ironstone, limestone,
and sandstone are found. Seats are Annock
Lodge, Perceton, "Warwickhill, and Cun-
ninghamhead. A Free church, erected in
1877, is at Perceton. 4 schools for 830
scholars are in the parish, and 2 of them
and an enlargement for 540 are new.
DREGHORN, seat in Colinton parish,
Edinburghshire.
DREINICH, small island near Lismore,
in Loch Linnhe, Argyleshire.
DREM, village, adjacent to railway junc-
tion, 17^ miles east of Edinburgh. It has
a head post office with money order and
telegraph departments, a railway station,
and remains of a Knights Templars' estab-
lishment, and is near vestiges of a fortified
ancient Caledonian town.
DRHUIM, narrow, wooded, picturesque
reach of the Beauly's vale, 1\ miles long,
with a series of cascades, in Kilmorack
parish, Inverness-shire.
DRIMACHTOR, ancient forest in Laggan
parish, Inverness-shire.
DRIMADOWN, bay on south-west coast
of Arran Island, Buteshire.
DRIMCUDDEN, estate in Resolis parish,
Ross -shire.
DRIMDRISSAIG, seat in South Knapdale
parish, Argyleshire.