Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland

DALAVICH
Dalavich, an ancient parish and a registration district
in Lorn, Argyllshire. The parish, now annexed to Kil-
chrenan, lies along the loch and river of Avich, onward
to Loch Awe, on whose western shore, 14 miles WNW
of Inverary, stand its church and its public school.
Pop. of district (1871) 217, (1881) 226, (1891) 158. See
KlLCHRENAN.
Dalbaiber, a village on the E border of Fowlis-Wester
parish, Perthshire, 2 miles WSW of Methven village.
Dalbeattie, a thriving police burgh in Urr parish, SE
Kirkcudbrightshire, standing, 80 feet above sea-level, on
Dalbeattie Burn, 7 furlongs from its influx to Urr
Water, with a station on the Glasgow and South-Western
railway, 5J miles ESE of Castle-Douglas, 15* NE by E
of Kirkcudbright, 14J SW of Dumfries, 10SJ SSW of
Edinburgh, and 106J S by E of Glasgow. Founded as
a mere village in 1780, this ' Granite City of the South'
owes its quick recent extension to the neighbouring
quarries of Craignair in Br/ITTLE, to the opening of the
railway in 1860, and to its situation near the Urr,
which is navigable to Dalbeattie Port. The Dalbeattie
Burn runs through the town, and supplies motive power
for numerous works. It consists of a main street with
others diverging, and has a post office, with money order,
savings bank, and telegraph departments, branches of
the Union and Commercial Banks, insurance agencies,
hotels, a gaswork, a town-hall with illuminated clock,
a mechanics' institute (1877), a literary association,
bowling and quoiting greens, masonic, oddfellows', and
foresters' lodges, etc. In 1877 Mr Maxwell of Munches
erected a club-room for working men, now known as the
Church Hall, and used for public meetings, etc. There
are extensive bone, paper, bobbin, saw, and flour mills,
dye-works, brick and tile works, an iron-forge, and con-
crete works; but Dalbeattie's chief industrial establish-
ments are its large steam granite-polishing works, which
employ several hundreds of workmen as quarriers, hewers,
and polishers; have furnished granite for the Liverpool
and Chatham docks, the Thames Embankment, light-
houses in Ceylon, etc., and the paving of many large
cities at home and abroad; and, besides other monu-
ments, supplied that at Hughenden to Viscountess and
Viscount Beaconsfield. Dalbeattie forms a quoad sacra
parish in the presbytery and synod of Dumfries, its
minister's stipend being £230. A new parish church,
Early English in style, with 900 sittings and a spire 130
feet high, was built in 1880 at a cost of £5000; and, at
a cost of nearly £2000, a Free church, Romanesque in
style, was built in 1881. Other places of worship are
a U.P. church (1S18 ; 350 sittings), an Evangelical
Union church, St Peter's Roman Catholic church (1814;
300 sittings), and Christ Church Episcopal (1875), an-
other Early English edifice, with tower unfinished. A
public, a female public, and a Roman Catholic school,
with respective accommodation for 722, 60, and 150
children, had (1891) an average attendance of 465, 47,
and 66, and grants of £465, 16s. Id., £48, 19s., and
£59, 13s. 6d. Under the General Police and Improve-
ment Act of 1862, the burgh is governed by a senior
and two junior magistrates and six other police com-
missioners. Dalbeattie Loch, a mile and a half from
the town, abounds with trout. Pop. of burgh (1841)
1430, (1861) 1736, (1871) 2937, (1881) 3865, (1891)
3149; of quoad sacra parish (1881) 4132, (1891) 3348.
— Ord. Sur., sh. 5, 1857.
Dalbeth, a seat and a Roman Catholic convent on the
Clyde, in the eastern environs of Glasgow. Connected
with the convent is a female reformatory, and adjoining
it on the west is a large and beautiful cemetery, west of
which is Westthorn reformatory for boys.
Dalblair. See Glekmuik.
Dalcaimie Linn. See Bekbeth.
Dalcapon. See Dunkeld and Dowally.
Dalchally, a glen in Glenisla parish, Forfarshire,
traversed by Cally Water to the river Isla at a point 6
miles N of Glenisla church.
Dalchonzie, an estate, with a modern mansion, in
Comrie parish, Perthshire, on the right bank of the
E;im, 24 miles W of Comrie village.
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DALGETY
Dalchosnie, an estate, with a mansion, in Fortingall
parish, NW Perthshire, near the right bank of the
Tummel, 1J mile ESE of Kinloch Rannoch.
Dalcreichard, a hamlet, with a public school, in
Urquhart and Glenmoriston parish, Inverness-shire, on
the left bank of the Moriston, 1 mile W of Torgyle
Bridge. It has a post office under Inverness.
Dalcross, a ruined castle in the united parish of Croy
and Dalcross, NE Inverness-shire, 2 miles SE of Dalcross
station on the Highland railway, this being 6| miles
NE of Inverness. Built by the eighth Lord Lovat in
1620, it afterwards passed to the M'Intoshes, whose nine-
teenth chief, Lachlan, lay here in state from 9 Dec. 1703
till 18 Jan. 1704, when 2000 of the Clan Chattan fol-
lowed his remains — scanty enough, one would fancy — to
their last resting-place in Petty church. Here, too,
the Royal troops were put in array immediately before
the battle of Culloden. Dalcross stands high, and com-
mands a continuous view from Mealfourvonie to the Ord
of Caithness; it consists of two square, lofty, corbie-
gabled blocks, joined to each other at right angles. In
1893 measures were taken for its restoration. See CfiOV.
Dalcruive or Dalcrue, a place in Methven parish,
Perthshire, 2 miles NE of Methven village, on the right
bank of the Almond, which here is crossed by a fine
bridge, erected in 1836-37, with one semicircular arch
of 80 feet span.
Daldawn or Dildawn, an estate, with a modern man-
sion in Kelton parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, on the left
bank of the Dee, 3 miles SW of Castle-Douglas.
Dalduff, an ancient baronial fortalice in Maybole
parish, Ayrshire, now represented by only ruinous
walls, 3 miles SE of Maybole town.
Dale, a village of Shetland, 3J miles from its post-
town, Lerwick.
Dalgain. See Sorn.
Dalgarno, an old parish, now united to that of Close-
burn, Dumfriesshire.
Dalgarnock, an ancient parish in Nithsdale, Dumfries-
shire, annexed to Closeburn in 1697. It nearly sur-
rounded the original parish of Closeburn ; and its
beautiful churchyard, 1J mile S of Thornhill, contains
the grave and tombstone of the persecuted Covenanter
James Harkness. Here stood a village, a burgh of
barony, where a famous market-tryst was held, that
seems to have been continued after most or all of the
houses had disappeared, and is alluded to in Burns's
lines:
' But a' the next week, as I fretted wi' care,
I gaed to the tryst o' Dalgarnock ;
And wha but my fine fickle lover was there I
I glowr'd as I'd seen a warlock, a warlock;
I glowr'd as I'd seen a warlock.'
Dalgarven, a village in Kilwinning parish, Ayrshire,
on the right bank of the Garnock, contiguous to the
Glasgow and South-Western railway, 2 miles N by W
of Kilwinning town.
Dalgenross. See Dalgineoss.
Dalgety or Delgaty, an estate, with a mansion, in
Turriff parish, N Aberdeenshire, 2 miles ENE of Turriff
town. For three centuries and a half the property of
the Hays of Erroll, it was sold in 1762 to Peter Garden,
Esq. of Troup, and by his son resold in 1798 to James,
second Earl of Fife, whose nephew, Gen. the Hon. Sir
Alexander Duff (1778-1851), long made it his residence.
Finally it was purchased by a younger brother of the
Right Hon. Sir M. E. Grant-Duff, Ainslie Douglas
Ainslie, Esq., who, born in 1838, changed in 1866 his
name to that of Ainslie. The oldest part of Dalgety
Castle, with walls more than 7 feet thick, is older per-
haps than its earliest extant date (1579); and, added
to at various periods down to tho present century, the
whole is now a stately square, winged pile, its battle-
ments — 66 feet from the ground — commanding a beau-
tiful view. The grounds are finely wooded, and contain
a lake (2J x 4. furl.)— Ord. Sur., sh. 86, 1876.
Dalgety, a coast parish of SW Fife, containing the vil-
lages of St Davids, Fordel, and Mossgreen, with part of
Cp.ossoates, and traversed down to the coast at St Davids