Gazetteer of Scotland

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KIN
contains some good houses ; and has a
post office, with all departments, under
Alloa, 2 banking offices, Established,
Free, and United Presbyterian churches,
and a large public school.
KINCARDINE, parish containing Blair-
Drummond post office station, Norrieston,
Kirklane, and "Woodlane villages, and
most of Thornhill post office village, on
south border of Perthshire. It is bounded
on the south by the river Forth ; consists
of two sections, separated from each other
at a mean distance of 2\ miles ; measures
about 7 miles in length inclusive of the
intersection, and about 3\ miles in greatest
breadth; and comprises 10,504 acres. Eeal
property in 18S0-81, £16,046. Pop. 1359.
About two-thirds of the land are carse, and
the rest to the north is a gently ascending
ridge with maximum height of about 300
feet. Much of the carse is rich land elabo-
rately reclaimed from old superincumbent
deep moss. A chief feature is Blair-Drum-
mond mansion ; and chief antiquities are
three tumuli in Blair-Drummond park.
The parochial church stands 4 miles east
of Norrieston, and is a handsome edifice of
1816. A quoad sacra parochial church and
a Free church are at Norrieston. Three
schools for 377 scholars are in the parish,
and part of one of them for 52 is new.
KINCARDINE, hamlet and parish on
north border of Boss-shire. The hamlet lies
on Kyle of Dornoch Firth, 2 miles south-
east of Bonar-Bridge, and has Established
and Free churches and a public school. —
The parish contains also Ardgay post office
village ; includes Croick quoad sacra
parish ; extends westward along the Kyle
and Oikell river ; measures upwards of 35
miles in length ; and is not more than 5
miles broad in the east, but widens to
about 20 miles in the west. Real pro-
perty in 18S0-81, £12,751. Pop., quoad
civilia, 1472 ; quoad sacra, 1278. The
coast is flat and sandy, and the interior
consists of pastoral uplands with intersect-
ing straths or glens, and contains many
small lakes. Scandinavian dunes are in
several places. An Established church is
at Croick, and a Free church is at Eosehall.
Six schools for 290 scholars are in the
parish, and 4 of them for 220 are new.
KINCARDINE, ancient parish, now united
to Abernethy, in Inverness-shire. It has a
parochial church with about 600 sittings.
KINCARDINE, romantic glen, traversed
by Madrany rivulet, crossed by a six-
arched railway viaduct, and containing
ruins of an ancient ducal castle, in Black-
ford parish, Perthshire.
KINCARDINE, quondam town, 4 miles
north-west of Laurencekirk, Kincardine-
shire. It gave name to the county, had a
royal palace, was the county's political
capital till the time of James VI., and
declined into the condition of a small
hamlet.
KINCARDINE-ONEIL, village, parish,
and district in south-west of Aberdeen-
shire. The village stands on the Dee, 3
miles west-south-west of Lumphanan
railway station, has picturesque environs,
is a resort of summer visitors, and has a
post office, with money order department,
under Aberdeen, an inn, Established, Free,
and Episcopalian churches, and a public
school with about 112 scholars. — The parish
measures fully 8 miles by 5, and comprises
18,182 acres. Eeal property in 1880-81,
£11,522. Pop., quoad civilia, 1931 ; quoad
sacra, 1101. The surface consists of three
straths or parts of straths, with consider-
able intervening hills ; has, in two of
the straths, an elevation of between 400
and 500 feet above sea-level ; and includes
part of the hill of Fare. Chief residences
are Kincardine House, Desswood, Learney,
Camfield, and Craigmyle. There are 5
schools for 367 scholars. — The district
comprehends a small part of the lower
portion of the Dee's basin, all of the
central portion belonging to Aberdeen-
shire, and the whole of the upper portion,
and includes a small part of the central
portion of the Don's basin. Its length is
57 miles ; its breadth from 8 to 16 miles.
KINCARDINESHIRE, or MEARNS, mari-
time county between Aberdeenshire and
Forfarshire. It extends 30 miles along
the German Ocean from the Dee to the
North Esk, and 22 miles westward to
Mount Battock ; but it has a triangular
outline, with the sharpest angle at the
mouth of the Dee ; and it comprises only
388 square miles. The seaboard from the
Dee to Stonehaven, measuring about 50
square miles, has a bold rocky shore, and
is prevailingly bleak and moorish. The
seaboard from Stonehaven to the North
Esk, comprising about 8S square miles,
has mostly a cliffy shore, from 100 to 300
feet high, and is mostly an assemblage of
hills not more than 500 feet high, with
profuse intermixture of ravine, vale, and
plain. The How, extending from Stone-
haven to the south-western boundary, and
comprising about 50 square miles, is the
eastern part of Strathmore, only about 5
furlongs wide at the coast, but gradually
expanding to a width of about 5 miles to
the south-west, and forms a low luxuriant
champaign. The Deeside section, extend-
ing about 13 miles along the right side of
the Dee, and about 9J miles farther on
both sides, and comprising about 80 square
miles, is much diversified with flats and
heights, abounds in wood, and exhibits
aggregately a fine appearance. The rest
of the county, comprising about 120
square miles, is filled with an offset of the
Central Grampians, or rather is an ascent
to them from the seaboard ; rises from
heights of from 500 to 600 feet in the east
to the summit of Mount Battock in the
west ; and, with exception of intersecting
vales, is nearly all rugged and sterile.
The chief streams, besides the two great
ones on the boundaries, are the Feugh and
the Sheeoch, running to the Dee ; the Co wie,