Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland

KEITH-HUNDEBY
poet, whose ancestors had held the estate of Caskieben
for many generations, and Alexander Keith, D.D.
(1791-1880), the well-known writer on prophecy; but
the historian, Bishop Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), was
born at Edinburgh, though his father possessed the lands
of Crimond. The estate of Caskieben (thereafter called
Keithhall) was purchased from the Johnstons about
1662 by Sir John Keith, third son of the sixth Earl
Marischal, who in 1677 was created Earl of Kintore and
Baron Keith of Inverurie and Keithhall.- By the addi-
tion about 1700 of a front and E wing to the older
house, he rendered it a large and stately mansion, which
stands near the Ury's left bank, amidst a-.nobly-wooded
park, 1 mile E of Inverurie. His ninth descendant,
Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, tenth Earl
of Kintore and thirteenth Lord Falconer of Halkerton
(b. 1852; sue. 1880), owns extensive acres in Aberdeen-
shire, Forfarshire, and Kincardineshire. (See Inglis-
maldie.) Keithhall is in the presbytery of Garioch
and synod of Aberdeen; the living is worth £274. The
parish church, built in 1772, and repaired in 1875, con-
tains 500 sittings; and the public school, with accom-
modation for 140 children, has an average attendance
of over 70, and a grant of about £65. Pop. (1801) 853,
(1831) 877, (1861) 933, (1871) 874, (1881) S80, (1891)
822.— Ord. Sur., shs. 76, 77, 1874-73.
Keith-Hundeby. See Keith, Haddingtonshire.
Keitliick, an estate, with a mansion, in Coupar- Angus
parish, Perthshire, 2 miles SW of the town. Its owner
is Edward Collins Wood, Esq. (b. 1841; sue. 1877).—
Ord. Sur., sh. 48, 1868.
Keithinch. See Peterhead.
Keithock House. See Brechin.
Keithtown, a hamlet in Fodderty parish, SE Ross-
shire, If mile W of Maryburgh.
Kelburne Castle, a seat of the Earl of Glasgow in
Largs parish, Ayrshire, within J mile of the Firth of
Clyde, 1£ mile N by E of Fairlie, and 2 miles SSE of
Largs town. Originally a square tower, it was described
by Pont in the beginning of the 17th century as 'a
goodly building, well planted, having very beautiful
orchards and gardens;' and a hundred years later it
was enlarged by David, first Earl of Glasgow. Special
features of interest are a metal finial, with the crest of
the Boyles surmounted by a thistle, and 'an ingeniously
ornamented sun-dial, where every inch of surface is made
to tell the story of time, and where its pinnacle, by a
series of grooves, imitates the crocketing of Gothic
architecture.' The estate came into possession of the
Earl's ancestors so early as the time of Alexander III.
(1249-86), and gives the title of Viscount to David
Boyle, seventh Earl of Glasgow since 1703 (b. 1833;
sue. 1890). The park contains many fine old trees;
comprises much diversity of ground, with wooded braes
and heights; and includes a dark, wooded glen, where
Clea Burn, rising at an altitude of 1280 feet, and run-
ning 2J miles north-north-westward and westward to
the Firth, forms two romantic waterfalls, the lower one
50 feet high. In 1894 a private burying ground was laid
out within the policies. — Ord. Sur., sh. 21, 1870. See
Millar's Castles and Mansions of Ayrshire (1885).
Kelhead, a place with limeworks in Cummertrees
parish, Dumfriesshire, 3£ miles WNW of Annan.
Kellas, a hamlet in Murroes parish, Forfarshire, 5
miles NNE of Dundee.
Kellas, a village in Dallas parish, Elginshire, on the
left bank of the Lossie, 6J miles SSW of Elgin.
Kellerstain, a mansion in Katho parish, Edinburgh-
shire, £ mile WNW of Gogar station. — Ord. Sur., sh.
32, 1857.
Kellie, an estate, containing Kellie Castle, in Carnbee
parish, Fife. The castle, 3J miles NW of Pittenweem,
occupies a prominent and beautiful situation on the
south side of Kellie Law, and was restored by the late
Professor Lorimer, who wrote — ' As it now appears it
is a jacobin residence of great elegance of form, and
possesses special interest from the fact that no external
alterations appear to have been made on it of a later
date than 1606. The western portion is flanked by
902
KELLS
two towers with turrets supported by corbels or brackets
and projecting boldly from the angles. These turrets
are of considerable size, and are each lighted by two
windows. The eastern portion is plainer, and bears
the date 1573.' The castle is the scene of one of Mrs
Oliphant's tales, Katie Stewart. The estate, which
formerly belonged to the Earls of Mar and Kellie, is now
the property of Mr. T. A. Hog, and contains Kellie Law
(500 feet).— Ord. Sur., sh. 41, 1857.
Kelloe, a mansion in Edrom parish, Berwickshire, on
the left bank of Blackadder Water, 1J mile SSE of
Edrom station. Its owner is George Charles Fordyce-
Buehan, Esq. (b. 1867; sue. 1871). Between the-man-
sion and the station is the hamlet of Kelloe-Bastile. —
Ord. Sur., sh. 26, 1864.
Kello Water, a mountain rivulet of Sanquhar parish,
NW Dumfriesshire. Rising upon the northern slope
of Blacklorg Hill at an altitude of 1980 feet, it runs
2J miles north-north-eastward along the boundary with
New Cumnock in Ayrshire, and then 5| miles east-
north-eastward along the Kirkconnel border, till, after a
total descent of 1480 feet, it falls into the Nith at a
point 2^ miles WNW of Sanquhar town. It is well
stocked with trout. — Ord. Sur., sh. 15, 1S64.
Kells, a parish in Glenkens district, Kirkcudbright-
shire, containing the royal burgh of New Galloway.
It is bounded NW and N by Carsphairn, E by Dairy,
Balmaclellan, and Parton, S by Balmaghie, and SW and
W by Girthon and Minnigaff. Its utmost length, from
NW to SE, is 15J miles; its breadth varies between 1J
and 9J miles; and its area is 49,376J acres, of which
794J are water. The Water of Ken winds 14| miles
south-south-eastward along all the eastern boundary,
broadening to 3J furlongs in Loch Ken, below which
it joins the Dee; and the Dee itself, from -| mile below
its efflux from Loch Dee, flows 18| miles east-south-
eastward along the south-western and southern bor-
der, and traverses triangular Stroan Loch (4 x 2|
furl.; 225 feet). Pulmaddy Burn runs 6| miles east-
by-southward along the northern boundary to the Ken,
whose principal affluent from the interior is Pul-
harrow Burn, running 5§ miles east-south-eastward out
of Loch Harrow (3 x 1* furl. ; 850 feet). Two other
lakes, communicating with Pulharrow Burn, are Lochs
Dungeon (6x2 furl.; 1025 feet) and Minnoch _(2xlJ
furl. ; 870 feet). The surface is everywhere hilly or
mountainous, sinking to close on 100 feet above sea-
level at the SE corner of the parish, where the Ken falls
into the Dee, and thence rising north-westward to 1066
at Cairn Edward, 1616 at Cairnsmore or Blackcraig of
Dee, 1248 at Bennan, 2446 at Meikle Millyea, 2350 at
Millfire, and 2668 at Corserine — heathy summits these
of the Rhynns of Kells that command a magnificent
view. The entire tract along the Ken is eminently
beautiful, exhibiting in its upper parts a reach of
narrow vale, flanked and overlooked by grassy or wooded
slopes, and by romantic ravines and hills, and expand-
ing in its lower part, especially along Loch Ken, into
a fertile alluvial flat, screened and overhung by parka
and verdant uplands. Much of the interior, to the
S of the Rhynns, is supposed to have been a hunt-
ing-ground, first of the Lords of Galloway, afterwards
of the Kings of Scotland. It retains some stunted re-
mains of an ancient and very large forest, and includes
the two farms of Upper and Nether Forest, patches of
wood called the King's Forest, and a large meadow, the
King's Holm. Granite is a predominant rock; excellent
slates were formerly quarried in the NE ; iron ore
abounds in one locality; and lead ore occurs on Glenlee
and Kenmure estates, and was formerly mined. The
soil of the alluvial tract along the Ken is so rich, that,
in the days prior to modern agricultural improvement,
it bore crops for twenty-five successive years without
other manure than the Ken's natural deposits, but else-
where the soil is exceedingly various, and graduates
towards the hills and mountains into worthless moor
or bare rock. The chief antiquities are a large rocking
stone on one of the heights of the Rhynns, vestiges of a
defensive wall extending southward through great part