Gazetteer of Scotland

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PITTULLIE, fishing village and ruined
old baronial castle, 3 miles west of Fraser-
burgh, Aberdeenshire. Pop. 277.
PLADDA, small low green island near
south-eastern extremity of Arran, in Firth
of Clyde. A lighthouse is on it with two
fixed lights, the one above the other,
visible at the distance of 14 and 17 nautical
miles. Pop. 17.
PLAIDY, railway station and estate, 4|
miles north of Turriff, Aberdeenshire.
PLAINS, village in New Monkland
parish, Lanarkshire. Pop. 516.
PLANTATION, south-western suburb of
Glasgow, on the Clyde, above Go van. It
has a quoad sacra parochial church, and a
United Presbyterian church. Pop. of the
quoad sacra parish, 11,519.
PLATANE, quondam forest, extending
from Finhaven Castle to Kirriemuir, in
Forfarshire.
PLATT, hill, with site of ancient camp,
and with extensive view, in Ratho parish,
Edinburghshire.
PLEAN, village and quoad sacra parish
in Stirlingshire. The village stands 5
miles south-east of Stirling, and has a post
office under Stirling, a large hospital for old
men, an Established church, and 2 public
schools with about 218 scholars. Pop. 369.
— The parish contains a ruined, thick- walled
old tower, extensive collieries, and the
camping-ground of Prince Charles Edward
prior to the battle of Falkirk. Pop. 1037.
PLEASANCE, old suburb in south-east of
Old Town of Edinburgh. It contained a
nunnery of St. Mary of Placentia, and got
its name from corruption of the word
Placentia.
PLEASANCE, village in Dalserf parish,
Lanarkshire.
PLENDERLEATH, place, with ruined
old chapel, in Oxnam parish, Roxburgh-
shire.
PLOCKTON, village and quoad sacra
parish on south-west coast of Ross-shire.
The village stands on the south side of
Loch Carron, 5 miles west-south-west of
Strome Ferry, and has a post office
under Strome-Ferry, Established and Free
churches, and a public school with about
126 scholars. Pop. 440.
PLODDA, fine cascade on Deaothack
rivulet, in Krltarlity parish, Inverness-shire.
PLORA, burn, running northward from
Minchmoor to the Tweed, in Peeblesshire.
PLOTCOCK, colliery in Hamilton parish,
Lanarkshire.
PLUNTON, picturesquely-situated ruined
old castle in Borgue parish, Kirkcudbright-
shire.
PLUSCARDINE, place, with ruined abbey
of 13th century, in pleasant vale 5 miles
south-west of Elgin. It has a post office
under Elgin and a Free church. The
abbey resembles that of Melrose, but is
smaller and plainer ; its chapter-house re-
sembles that of Elgin Cathedral ; and part
of its cloisters has been re-constructed into
the Free church.
POLAGHLOUP, great cavernous fissure
on north coast of Durness parish, Suther-
land.
POLBEATH, burn, running southward
to the Irvine, at 3| miles east of Kilmar-
nock, Ayrshire.
POLGAVIE. See Powgavie.
POLGREE, rivulet, running south-east-
ward to the Garnock, in Kilbirnie parish,
Ayrshire.
POLHARROW, affluent of the Ken, in
Kells parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
POLKEMMET, seat of Sir William Baillie,
Bart. , 1| mile west of "Whitburn, Linlith-
gowshire.
POLLA, rivulet, running to the sea, in
north-east of Durness parish, Sutherland.
POLLEWE. See Poolewe.
POLLOCK, rivulet, running to Loch
Shiel, on north border of Argyleshire.
POLLOCK, seat of Sir John M. S.
Maxwell, Bart., about a mile west of
Pollockshaws, Renfrewshire.
POLLOCK, or UPPER POLLOCK, seat of
Sir Hew C. Pollock, Bart., 3| miles south-
west of Pollockshaws, Renfrewshire.
POLLOCKSHAWS, town on the White
Cart, 2r? miles south-south-west of Glasgow.
It stands in Eastwood parish, which had
for ministers the ecclesiastical historians
Crawford and Woodrow ; consists of ir-
regularly-arranged streets, but presents a
pleasant appearance ; is a prosperous seat
of manufacture ; and has a post office,
with money order and telegraph depart-
ments, under Glasgow, a railway station,
2 banking offices, a town hall, 2 Established
churches, 2 Free churches, United Pres-
byterian, Original Secession, and Roman
Catholic churches, an academy so enlarged
in 1879 as to have capacity for about 550
scholars, the Sir John Maxwell school,
with about the same capacity as the aca-
demy, and a handsome monument to the
historian Woodrow. Pop. 9363. Part of
the town forms a quoad sacra parish.
Pop. 6402.
POLLOCKSHIELDS, suburb averagely
If mile south-west of centre of Glasgow.
It is all modern and regularly aligned ;
was constituted a police burgh in 1876 ;
consists largely of rows of handsome villas ;
and has a post office, with money order
and telegraph departments, under Glasgow,
a railway station; Established and Free
churches of 1878, erected at cost of about
respectively £14,000 and £6500, a United
Presbyterian church of 1882, and a public
school. Pop. 6464. — A quoad sacra parish
contains the suburb and extends beyond
it. Pop. 6523.
POLMADDIE, hill, 1750 feet high, 12
miles south of Maybole, Ayrshire.
POLMADIE, suburb, with site of ancient
hospital, in southern outskirts of Glasgow.
Pop. 1876.
POLMAILY, seat and public school in
Urquhart parish, Inverness-shire.
POLMAISE, seat on the Forth, 2J
miles east of Stirling.