Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland

AULDERG
most of wliom (the fishing class only excepted) have
their burial places here. The minister's income is
£296. There are also a Free church, 1 mile S of the
village, and Moyness U.P. church at Boghole, 3| miles
E, the latter built about 17S0, repaired in 1817, and
seating 353. The two public schools of Auldearn and
Moyness, with respective accommodation for 167 and 77
children, had (1S91) an average attendance of 112 and 33,
and grants of £117, 17s. 6d. and £42, 9s. 6d. Valuation,
£10,091, 15s. 5d. Pop. (1831) 1653, (1861) 1328,
(1871) 1279, (1881) 1292, (1891) 1315.— OrcZ. Sur., sh.
84, 1876.
Aulderg, a burn in Dallas parish, Elginshire, run-
ning to the river Lossie.
Auldfield, a section of Pollokshaws town in East-
wood parish, Renfrewshire. The quoad sacra parish
church of Pollokshaws is here, bore originally the name
of Auldfield chapel of ease, was built in 1840 and is a
neat edifice with a spire.
Auldgirnaig, a hamlet in Moulin parish, Perthshire,
on the river Garry, at the mouth of Glen-Girnaig, con-
tiguous to the N end of the Pass of Killiecrankie, 4
miles NNW of Pitlochry.
Auldgirth, a place in the southern angle of Closeburn
parish, Dumfriesshire, on the river Nith and on the Glas-
gow and South-Western railway, 8 miles NW by N of
Dumfries. It has a bridge over the Nith, a station on
the railway, a good inn, and a post office under Dum-
fries, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph
departments. A famous old three-trunked tree, called
the Three Brethren, stood near it, but has been de-
stroyed. The adjacent reach of the valley of the Nith,
for about 2 miles, is contracted to the narrowness of
almost a gorge, and exhibits views of singular pic-
turesqueness.
Auldgrande. See Aultgrande.
Auld-Hill, a hill in West Kilbride parish, Ayrshire,
crowned with remains of a circular building, which pro-
bably was occupied as a watch-tower.
Auldhouse, a hamlet, with a public school, in East
Kilbride parish, Lanarkshire, 3 miles S by W of the
village of East Kilbride.
Auldhouse, a burn in the E of Renfrewshire, rising in
Mearns parish, and running about 5J miles north-east-
ward past Thornliebank village to the White Cart at
Pollokshaws.
Auldkirk. See Innerkip.
Auldmuir, a place, with extensive limeworks, in
Dairy parish, Ayrshire.
Auldna, a mineral tract, with excellent worked coal,
in the upper part of New Cumnock parish, Ayrshire.
Auldnachuirn and Auldnacuish, two burns in Dallas
parish, Elginshire, running to the Lossie.
Auldtown. See Alton.
Auld Water. See Old Water.
Auld Wick Castle, an old baronial fortalice in Wick
parish, Caithness, surmounting a dismal chasm in cliffs
at the S side of the entrance of Wick B9y, If mile SE
of Wick. It belonged, in the beginning of the 14th
century, to Sir Reginald de Cheyne, passed to the
Oliphants, the Earls of Caithness, the Dunbars, and
Lord Duffus ; is now dismantled and ruinous ; forms an
excellent landmark to mariners, and is commonly called
by them 'the Aul' Man o' Wick.'
Auld Wives' Lift, a famous cromlech in Baldernock
parish, SW Stirlingshire, 1 mile NNE of the church,
and 3 miles WSW of Lennoxtown. A trilith or com-
plete cromlech, it consists of three stones only — two of
nearly equal length supporting the huge topstone, a
block of basalt 18 feet long, 11 broad, and 7 thick.
Through the narrow triangular space between the three
stones every stranger must creep, if, runs the rustic
creed, lie would not die childless ; and those stones, he
is told, were brought hither by three old women in their
aprons, for a wager which should bear tho heaviest load.
Then from the top, though barely 400 feet above sea-
level, he may look right across the island from (irth to
firth, see the smoke of one steamer entering the Clyde,
and of another below Grangemouth in tho Forth. See
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AUSKERRT
Wilson's Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, and Nimmo's
Stirlingshire.
Aulich, a hamlet in Fortingal parish, Perthshire, on
the N side of Loch Rannoch, at the mouth of a burn of
its own name, 3J miles W of Kinloch Rannoch.
Aultandow. See Altando.
Aultanfhiler or Fiddlers' Burn, a brook in the NE of
Inverness-shire, running along the boundary between
Inverness and Petty parishes.
Aultbea, a coast hamlet in Poolewe quoad sacra
parish, W Ross-shire. It has a post office, an inn, a
sehoolhouse, an Established mission church (1891), a Free
church, and fairs on the Friday before the first Tuesday
of July and the Wednesday in October before Beauly ;
with Glasgow it communicates by steamboat.
Ault-Gheallaidh. See Aldtonlie.
Aultgrande or Altgraat, a rivulet of the E side of
Ross-shire. It issues from Loch Glass ; runs east-south-
eastward, about 7 miles, along the boundary between
Alness and Kiltearn parishes ; passes through a pro-
found, narrow, bosky chasm, seeming to have been
formed by the stroke of an earthquake ; makes, in its
progress, a series of romantic cateracts and cascades ;
falls into the Cromarty Firth, about 1 mile NE of
Kiltearn village ; and, when swollen by heavy rains, is
frequented by finnocks, sea-trout, and a few salmon.
Aultguish, a burn-torrent in Urquhart and Glenmoris-
ton parish, Inverness-shire, in the Forest of Ruisky,
down the precipitous alpine mountains of Mealfourvou-
nie, to the NW side of Loch Ness, nearly opposite the
famous Fall of Foyers. It makes, in one place, a sheer
leap of at least 100 feet ; and, as seen from Loch Ness,
it looks like a long white ribbon, streaked and figured
with the intervening trees.
Aultkollie, a very deep, tortuous, and romantic gully,
traversed by a burn, on the coastward side of Loth parish,
Sutherland.
Aultmore. See Altmore.
Aultnacaillich, a place in Durness parish, Sutherland,
in Strathmore, 18 miles SSE of Durness village. It was
the birthplace of Robert Calder Mackay (1714-78), com-
monly called Rob Donn (' Brown Robert '), regarded as
the Burns of the Northern Highlands. A fine waterfall
is on one side of it ; and the famous tower or round
burg of Dornadilla on the other. A neat monument to
Rob Donn, with inscriptions in Gaelic, English, Latin,
and Greek, was erected in Durness churchyard in 1829.
Aultnaharrow. See Altnaharra.
Aultnancarrach, a burn of E Ross-shire, running into
the Aultgrande rivulet. Productive lead ore has been
found on its banks.
Aultsigh, a burn on the boundary between Urquhart
and Glenmoriston, in the united parish of Urquhart and
Glenmoriston, Inverness-shire. Issuing from a lakelet
on the lofty western shoulder of Mealfourvounie (2284
feet), it tumbles and leaps down a rocky channel to
the base of a precipice nearly 1500 feet high ; is
screened in its progress by beetling cliffs and wooded
acclivities ; makes two beautiful falls, one about midway
down its course, the other near its mouth, both under
shades of thick foliage ; and passes into Loch Ness at a
point 2 j miles NE of Invermoriston. A roeking-stone,
about 20 feet in circuit, movable by two persons, is
on the mountain shoulder SW of the burn. A memor-
able conflict between a party of the Macdonalds of Glen-
garry, and a party of the Mackenzies of Ross-shire, was
fought on the burn in the early part of the 17th century,
and is commemorated in a celebrated pibroch, ' Tho
Raid of Kil-Christ'
Auquhirie, an estate, with a mansion, in the W of
Dunnottar parish, Kincardineshire.
Ausdale, a hamlet and a burn in Latheron parish,
Caithness. The hamlet lies on the burn, at tho N hase of
the Hill of Ord, 4 miles SW of Herriedale. The burn runs
south-eastward, has a course of only about 3 miles, and
leaps over a cliff of about 100 feet in depth into the sea.
Auskerry, a small island in Stronsay parish, Orkney,
2J miles S of Stronsay. It is used chiefly for pasturing
sheep and cattle ; has remains of an ancient chapel and