Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland

TALLA WATER
the SW, and makes a circuit round the burgh to
the firth. Springs of excellent water are numerous.
Loch Eye (If mile x 4J furl. ; 51 feet) lies on the Fearn
boundary; and five smaller lagoons are scattered over
the broad sandy golf-links of Morrich More, which skirt
all the eastern seaboard. The surface of the parish con-
sists of three well-defined districts — a belt of low flat
plain along the coast, about £ mile in mean breadth,
and partly disposed in public links or downs; a broad
sheet of land, of middle character between a terrace and
a hanging plain, receding from a bank or escarpment of
50 feet above the plain, and displaying rich embellish-
ments of wood and culture; and a ridge or series of
gentle uplands along the exterior frontier, sending up
their loftiest summit in the Hill of Tain to an altitude
of 931 feet above sea-level. The soil -is variously deep
and light, fertile and barren; and the hills are partly
heathy, partly clad with fir timber. The formation
of the lowest grounds indicates an alternation of con-
quests and abandonments by the sea; that of the central
district shows a prevalence of red clay with numerous
boulders of granitic gneiss ; and that of the hills is
entirely sandstone — apparently the Old Red, though
principally of whitish colour. The sandstone has been
largely quarried in the Hill of Tain. Tarlogie House,
2 miles NW of Tain, was built in 1825 at a cost of
£1750. Its owner is J. G. Macgregor, Esq. of Fearn.
Tain is the seat of a presbytery in the synod of Ross;
the living is worth £320. Two public schools, Inver
and Tain, with respective accommodation for 91 and
323 children, have an average attendance of about 75
and 215, and grants of nearly £85 and £255. Pop.
(1801) 2277, (1831) 3078, (1861) 3294, (1871) 3221,
(1881) 3009, (1891) 2818, of whom 1432 were Gaelic-
speaking.— Ord. Sur., sh. 94, 1878.
The presbytery of Tain comprises the quoad civilia
parishes of Edderton, Fearn, Kilmuir-Easter, Kincar-
dine, Logie-Easter, Nigg, Rosskeen, Tain, and Tarbat,
and the quoad sacra parish of Croick. The Free Church
also has a presbytery of Tain, with churches at Edder-
ton, Fearn, Invergordon, Kilmuir-Easter, Kincardine,
Logie-Easter, Nigg, Rosskeen, Tain, and Tarbat, and a
preaching station at Croick. See the History of Tain
by the Rev. William Taylor, M.A. (Tain, 1882).
Talla Water, a troutful rivulet of Tweedsmuir parish,
Peeblesshire, rising at an altitude of 2300 feet at a point
A mile NW of Loch Skene, and running 64, miles north-
westward, till, after a descent of 1500 feet, it falls into
the Tweed near Tweedsmuir church. See Gameshope.
— Ord. Sur., sh. 16, 1864.
Talmin, a coast village and a bay in Tongue parish,
Sutherland, on the west side of the Kyle of Tongue.
In 1894, Government, on the recommendation of the
Western Highlands and Islands Commission, having
offered a grant of £3500, a pier or breakwater estimated
to cost £5250 (the balance having been made up by the
late Duke of Sutherland) was begun, connecting the
mainland with an outlying island, and so inclosing a
large water area with a depth of from 8 to 12 feet at
low water, and providing protection for fishing boats.
It was intended at the same time to erect a timber pier
in deep water on the sheltered side of the outlying
island, suitable for steamers, but for financial reasons
this part of the scheme has had to be deferred.
Tanera. See Summer Isles.
Tankerness Hall, a mansion in St Andrews parish,
Orkney, on the northern shore of Deer Sound, 6 miles
ESE of Kirkwall.
T anna ch, a village in Wick parish, Caithness, 4 miles
SW of Wick town.
Tannachy, an estate, with a mansion, in Rathven
parish, Banffshire, 1 mile SSW of Port-Gordon.
Tannadice, a village and a parish of NW central
Forfarshire. The village stands, 208 feet above sea-
level, on the left bank of the river South Esk, 8J miles
WSW of Brechin and 7 N by E of Forfar, under which
it has a post office.
The parish is bounded N by Lethnot, E by Fearn
and Careston, SE by Aberlemno, S by Oathlaw, SW by
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TANNADICE
Kirriemuir, and W and NW by Cortachy. Its utmost
length, from N to S, is 8| miles; its breadth increases
southward from 1\ to 8 miles; and its area is 21,452f
acres, of which 124J are water. The Brechin and For-
far railway (opened Aug. 1894) runs through the eastern
part of the parish, and has a station near the village of
Tannadice. Trusty Burn, rising at an altitude of 2160
feet in the NW corner of the parish, and running 3
miles south-south-eastward, unites, at 890 feet above
sea-level, with another rivulet to form Noran Water,
which itself flows 4 J miles south-south-eastward through
the interior and then 4j miles east-south-eastward along
the Fearn boundary, until it passes off from Tannadice
at a point l£ mile above its influx to the South Esk.
That river has here an east-south-easterly course of 11
miles, viz., 6J miles along the western and south-western
border, next 3J miles through the southern interior,
then 5 furlongs along the Oathlaw boundary at Tanna-
dice House, and lastly, a little lower down, f mile
along the same boundary at Marcus Lodge. The East
Burn of Moye runs 5 miles south-south-westward along
the north-western border to the South Esk, to which
or to Noran Water flow several rivulets that rise in the
interior. In the SE the surface declines to 140 feet
above sea-level; and thence it rises to 415 feet at Meikle
Coul, 889 near Newmill of Inehewan, 1611 at St Arnold's
Seat, 1682 at Pinderachy on the Fearn boundary, and
2383 at the Hill of Glansie on the Lethnot boundary.
The southern district is part of the rich and beautiful
territory of Strathmore, but is more undulated and
otherwise diversified than many other parts of the
strath. The central and northern districts rise in hilly
and undulating ridges to the lower acclivities of the
Grampians; and St Arnold's Seat, a conspicuous hill in
the van of the range, commands a gorgeous view of all
Angus and Fife and most of the Lothians, away to the
Pentlands and the Lammermuirs. The uplands are to
a large extent heathy and almost wholly pastoral; and
they maintain several hundreds of sheep. Only a few
cattle are bred, a large number being bought in a fed
condition every year. Except for a trap dyke extending
across the entire breadth of the parish, Old Red Sand-
stone is everywhere the predominant rock. Of a coarse
grain and a reddish hue, it is quarried chiefly for build-
ing fences. The soil is partly a fertile black loam,
partly thin and of moorish texture. Within the last
forty-five years great improvements have been carried
out in the way of draining, fencing, and building,
especially on the Tannadice estate, which was purchased
from Mrs Balfour Ogilvy in 1870 by William- Neish,
Esq. The mansion, Tannadice House, 7 furlongs ESE
of the village, and built about 1805, was burnt down
in April 1894. Other mansions, noticed separately,
are Downie Park, Glenogil, and Inohewan. On
the N side of the Esk, near Shielhill Bridge, anciently
stood Quiech Castle, a seat of the Earls of Buchan.
The site, now without a vestige of the castle, and
occupied by a plain cottage, is a precipitous rock, look-
ing sheer down, through deep and yawning chasms,
upon a rush and turbulence of water, and almost
isolated and rendered nearly inaccessible by the river.
In the vicinity of Achlouchrie is the site of another
ancient castle, an eminence which still bears the name
of Castle Hill, and overhangs a deep gorge of the river,
having round its base a semicircular fosse 12 feet deep
and 30 wide. Three conical ' laws, ' or ancient sepul-
chral tumuli, were levelled in the early part of the
19th century. Tannadice is in the presbytery of For-
far and the synod of Angus and Mearns; the living is
worth £186. The parish church, at the village, is a
Gothic edifice of 1846, containing 656 sittings. A Free
church, Memus, stands 3§ miles W by N of the village
and 5 J NE of Kirriemuir. Three public schools — Burn-
side of Inehewan, Denside, and Tannadice — with respec-
tive accommodation for 67, 75, and 132 children, have
an average attendance of about 40, 50, and 90, and
grants amounting to nearly £50, £65, and £90. Valu-
ation (1885) £14,883, 7s., (1893) £13,921, 8s. Pop.
(1801) 1373, (1841) 1654, (1861) 1438, (1871) 1286,