Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland

DAMFF
a quoad sacra parish constituted in 1880, its church the
old parish church (1789; enlarged 1860; 658 sittings) in
Windmillhill Street. Dalziel itself (a living worth £230)
has now its church in Merry Street, Motherwell, under
which and Craigneuk other places of worship are noticed.
Seven schools — Craigneuk, Dalziel, Merry Street, Milton
Street, Muir Street, and Craigneuk and Motherwell
Roman Catholic — with respective accommodation for
621, 868, 769, 693, 684, 413, and 632 children, have an
average attendance of about 350, 840 day and 70 even-
ing, 670 day and 100 evening, 420, 480 day and 30
evening, 370 day and 200 evening, 500 day and 150
evening scholars, and grants of nearly £510, £780 and
£52, £720 and £83, £420, £720 and £20, £370 and
£170, £530 and £136. Pop. (1881) 13,853, (1891)
19,204.— Ord. Sur., shs. 23, 31, 1865-67.
Damff. See Damph:.
Damhead, a village in Arngask parish, in the county
of Perth, with a station (Glenfarg) on the N. B. R. , 3 miles
NNW of Mawcarse station, and 4f N by E of Milnathort.
Damhead, a hamlet midway between St Ninians town
and Airth village, Stirlingshire.
Damph or Loch an Daimh, a lake of Lochbroom
parish, in the Coigach district of Cromartyshire, 10
miles E of Ullapool. Hill-girt, and fringed with birch
woods along its south-eastern shore, it lies at an altitude
of 672 feet above sea-level, is If mile long from SW to
NE, and has an utmost width of 1J furlong. It sends
off a streamlet to the Oykell, and its waters are well
stocked with trout. — Ord. Sur., sh. 101, 1882.
Damph, a lake in Applecross parish, W Ross-shire,
3 miles E of Shieldaig. Lying among high mountains,
it measures 3 J miles in length by J mile in width;
abounds in trout; and sends off the Balgay to Upper
Loch Torridon.
Dams, a village in Kettle parish, Fife, 1\ mile S of
Eettle village.
Damsay, an island of Firth parish, Orkney, in Firth
Bay, 4 miles WNW of Kirkwall. Measuring scarcely
a mile in circumference, it is so beautiful as to have
been sometimes styled the Tempe of the Orkneys ; it
anciently had a strong castle and a famous church,
which have entirely disappeared; and it now is used
for the pasturing of a few hundreds of sheep.
Damsburn, a hamlet in Logie parish, Stirlingshire,
1J mile W of Alva.
Damside, an estate, with a mansion, in Auchterarder
parish, Perthshire, If mile NE of the town. It has
several leech-ponds.
Damyat. See Dunmyat.
Dandaleith, a beautiful haugh in Rothes parish, Elgin-
shire, on the left bank of the Spey, with a station on
the Morayshire branch of the Great North of Scotland
railway, 2J miles SSE of Rothes village, and f mile
NW of Craigellachie Junction.
Dane's Dyke. See Ceail.
Daneshalt or Dunshelt, a village in Auchtermuchty
parish, Fife, 1J mile SE of Auchtermuchty town. II; is
said to have got its name from the Danes' first halting
here in their flight from Falkland Moor; and at it are
gas-works, a linen factory, farina works, and a public
school, which, with accommodation for 83 children, had
(1891) an average attendance of 43, and a grant of
£35, 14s. Pop. (1861) 567, (1871) 483, (1881) 414,
(1891) 328.
Danevale Park, a mansion in Crossmichael parish,
Kirkcudbrightshire, on the left bank of the Dee, 2f miles
JfW of Castle-Douglas.
Dankeith, an estate, with a mansion, in Symington
parish, Ayrshire, 4f miles SE of Kilmarnock.
Danna, an inhabited island in North Knapdale parish,
Argyllshire. Pop. (1891) 42.
Danskine, an inn in Garvald parish, Haddingtonshire,
5£ miles SE by S of Haddington.
Dara, a rivulet in the NW of Aberdeenshire. It rises
on the southern confines of Aberdour parish, and, bear-
ing for some distance the name of Idoch Water, runs
10 miles south-westward, past Newbyth and Cumines-
town, till, making a bend near the middle of Turriff
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DARNICK
parish, it thence runs 3 miles north-westward to the
Deveron, a little below Turriff town. — Ord. Sur., sh.
86, 1876.
Dara Den. See Dura Den.
Dardar, a ravine in Aberdour parish, Aberdeenshire,
traversed by an impetuous brook to the Moray Firth.
A cascade of three successive leaps occurs in the brook's
course, and in times of freshet makes a somewhat grand
and striking appearance.
Dargavel, an estate, with a mansion, in Erskine
parish, Renfrewshire. The mansion, 1 mile SSW of
Bishopton station, was built partly in 1574, partly at a
recent period; and is in the French style of Queen Mary's
reign.
Dargie, a village in Liff and Benvie parish, Forfarshire,
near Mylnefield, and 4 miles W of Dundee.
Dark Mile. See Archaig.
Darleith, an estate, with a mansion, in the SW of
Bonhill parish, Dumbartonshire, 3 miles N by W of
Cardross.
Darlingshaugh, a suburb and section of Galashiels, at
verge of Roxburghshire.
Darlington, a suburb of Stewarton, Ayrshire.
Darmead Linn. See Cambtjsnethan.
Darnaway Castle, a noble mansion in Dyke and Moy
parish, Elginshire, in the valley of the Findhorn, 1J
mile W of that river's left bank, and 2£ miles SSE of
Brodie station, this being 3J miles W by S of Forres,
under which there is a post office of Darnaway. Crown-
ing a gentle eminence, and overtopping a vast extent of
forest, it co mma nds a magnificent view, and was built
about 1810, being a large, oblong, castellated pile of
rather an imposing appearance — a seat of the Earl of
Moray. Of the castle founded here by Randolph,
Earl of Moray, early in the 14th century, nothing is
left but the banqueting hall, which, forming a back
wing to the modern mansion, measures 89 feet in length
by 35 in width, and has an arched oaken roof, somewhat
similar to that of the Parliament House in Edinburgh.
It contains a portrait of the ' Bonny Earl of Moray ' who
was murdered at Donibristle; and in it Queen Mary
held her court in 1564. The park is finely wooded,
upwards of ten millions of trees having been planted
towards the close of last century, to fill up gaps in
Darnaway Forest, which extends into Edinkillie. See
Moray, Dyke, Doxibristle, Doune, and Castle-
Sttjart.— Ord. Sur., sh. 84, 1S76.
Darnconner. See Dernconner.
Darngaber, a village in Hamilton parish, Lanarkshire,
near Quarter Road station, and 3 miles S of Hamilton
town. Pop. including Quarter (1891) 1179.
Darnhall, a seat of Lord Elibank in Eddlestone par-
ish, Peeblesshire, on a rising-ground, £ mile WNW of
Eddlestone station. Originally a Border tower, from
1412 the seat of the Murrays of Haltoun or Blackbarony,
it was greatly added to in the first half of the 17th
century, and now is a massive square chateau-like
edifice, with beautiful grounds and a fine old limetree
avenue. Montolieu Fox Oliphant-Murray, tenth Baron
Elibank since 1643 (b. 1840; sue. 1871), holds large
estates in the shire. See Elibank, Ballencriefp, and
PlTTHEAVLES.
Darnick, a village in Melrose parish, Roxburghshire,
near the right bank of the Tweed, 7 furlongs W of
Melrose town, under which it has a post office, with
money order, savings bank, and telegraph departments.
Darnick Tower, the chief of three peels that once stood
clustered here, and the finest specimen extant of its
kind, was founded by the Heitons about 1425, but,
razed and cast down by the English in 1545, appears to
have been repaired or rebuilt in 1569 — the date of the
crest (a bull's head) above the entrance door. A massive
square tower, battlemented and corbie-gabled, with side
stair-turret, it still is habitable, and still is held by a
descendant of its founder, Andrew Heiton, Esq., F.S.A.
(b. 1827; sue. 1870), whose cousin and predecessor con-
verted it into a kind of Border antiquarian museum.
Scott coveted it sorely, to make an armoury of it, and
from it was jestingly dubbed, by his familiar friends,