Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland

TIBBERS
on his embracing the Protestant religion at the Refor-
mation he became minister of Tibbermore. The name
Tibbermore signifies ' a great well, ' and probably alludes
to a perennial spring which issued from behind the
church, and was long known by the name of the ' Lady
Well,' but which, not long before 1843, was destroyed
by the draining of the adjacent field. The father of
Principal Tulloch was minister from 1833 to 1844. The
Earl of Kinnoull owns about three-fifths of the parish.
Giving off a small portion to the quoad sacra parish of
St Leonard, Tibbermore is in the presbytery of Perth
and the synod of Perth and Stirling; the living is worth
£240. The parish church, 2 miles SW of Almondbank
station, is a pre-Reformation building, the dates 1632
and 1808 on the belfry — which is a curious structure,
much admired by some ecclesiologists — being those of
repairs, and not of its erection. As enlarged by a N
aisle in 1810, it contains 600 sittings. Two public
schools, Ruthvenfield and Tibbermore, with respective
accommodation for 218 and 152 children, have an aver-
age attendance of about 100 and 65, and grants of nearly
£90 and £65. Valuation (1885) £11,617, 17s. lid.,
(1892) £13,823, lis. 9d. Pop. (1801) 1306, (1831)
1223, (1841) 1651, (1861) 1296, (1871) 1563, (1881) 1883,
(1891) 1692, of whom 211 were in the royal burgh of
Perth; of ecclesiastical parish (1881) 1832, (1891) 1928.
— Ord. Sur., sh. 48, 1868.
Tibbers, an ancient castle adjacent to the mutual
boundary of Penpont and Durisdeer parishes, Dumfries-
shire, at the influx of Park Burn to the river Nith,
opposite Carronbridge and 2J miles NNW of Thornhill.
Supposed to have been built by the Romans, and named
in honour of Tiberius Caesar, it was garrisoned by the
English in the early part of the Wars of the Succession,
and surprised and captured by Sir William Wallace;
and it is now represented by only slight vestiges. — Ord.
Sur., sh. 9, 1863.
Tibbie Shiels. See St Mary's Loch.
Tifty. See Fyvie.
Tighnabruaich (Gael, 'house on the edge of the
bank '), a recent watering-place in Kilfinan parish,
Argyllshire, on the Kyles of Bute, 2J miles SW of the
mouth of Loch Riddon and 9& (by water) NW of Rothe-
say. It has a post office, with money order, savings
bank, and telegraph departments, a branch of the Royal
Bank, 2 hotels, a steamboat pier, an Established church
(made quoad sacra in 1882), a Free church, and a public
school. A stained-glass window was inserted in the
parish church in 1890, a manse was built in 1891 at a
cost of £1050, and in 1894 a church hall, with side-
rooms, was erected at Karnes at a cost of £900. Pop.
<1871) 404, (1881) 771, (1891) 515.— Ord. Sur., sh. 29,
1873.
Tillery House. See Foveran.
Tillichewan Castle. See Bonhill.
Tillicoultry, a town and a parish of Clackmannan-
shire. The town lies at the southern base of the Ochils,
on Tillicoultry Burn, and within J mile of the right
bank of the Devon, 2 miles E of Alva, 3| NNE of Alloa,
3§ W by S of Dollar; whilst its station, on the Devon
Valley section (1851-71) of the North British railway,
is 10 miles ENE of Stirling, and 18$ WSW of Kinross.
The Queen, who passed it by train on 20 June 1879,
describes its ' situation, in a wooded green valley at the
foot of the hills,' as 'beautiful, reminding me of Italy
and Switzerland.' Since about 1830 Tillicoultry has
grown from a village to a thriving town, such growth
being due to the great extension of its woollen manu-
factures. These date, indeed, from the days of Queen
Mary, and long made Tillicoultry serges and blankets
famous throughout Scotland; but the weaving of tartans
and shawls was not introduced till 1824, and the manu-
facture of tweeds and silk fabrics is of still later origin.
About a dozen factories are now engaged in the woollen
industry, and employ a great number of the inhabitants.
The town has a post office, with money order, savings
bank, and telegraph departments, branches of the
Clydesdale and Union Banks, 2 hotels, gaswork, a
police station, a cemetery, a horticultural society, a
TILLICOULTRY
bowling club, Young Men's and Young Women's
Christian Associations, and a Wednesday Liberal paper,
the Tillicoultry News (1879). The Popular Institute
and Library, with accommodation for 1000 people, was
erected in 1860, and a handsome tower and spire, with
clock and bell, were added in 1878. In 1879 an orphan-
age, accommodating from thirty to forty inmates, was
gifted to the town by the late James Paton, Esq., who
also bequeathed £5000 towards its endowment. A
stretch of ground known as the Gallopin' Course Park,
of about 9 acres in extent, was leased in 1888 as a public
park. The parish church (1829) stands 4£ furlongs E
by S of the centre of the town. A new session-house
and hall were erected in 1889. The Free church was
built soon after the Disruption; and other places of
worship are the U.P., the Evangelical Union, the Bap-
tist, and the Congregational church, the last erected in
1876 at a cost of £3000. The town, under the Burgh
Police Act of 1892, is governed by a provost, 2 bailies,
and 6 commissioners. In 1895 a new bridge was erected
by the police commissioners at a cost of about £1000.
Pop. of town (1851) 3217, (1861) 3684, (1871) 3745,
(1881) 3732, (1891) 3939.
The parish, containing also the villages of Coais-
naughton and Devonside, is bounded & and NE by
Blackford and Glendevon in Perthshire, E by Dollar,
SE ana S by Clackmannan, SW by Alloa, and W by
Alva. Its utmost length, from NNW to SSE, is &£
miles; its breadth varies between 7§ furlongs and 2|
miles; and its area is 6976| acres, of which 30J are
water. The Devon first, a little below its source, flows
1J mile east-by-northward along the northern^ border,
and then, much lower down, winds 3§ miles west-south-
westward across the southern interior. Gloominoside
or Gannel Burn, rising at 1650, and Daiglen Burn, rising
at 1500, feet above sea-level, run If mile south-south-
westward and If mile south-south-eastward, until, at
an altitude of 1650 feet, they unite to form Tillicoultry
Burn, which itself flows 1£ mile south-by-westward
to the Devon at Glenfoot. Greenhorn and Broich
Burns run northward along the Alva and Blackford
and the Glendevon boundaries to the Devon, four others
of whose affluents have a southerly course, either through
the interior or along the eastern and western borders.
The scenery of these little mountain rivulets, with their
pools, cascades, and wooded banks, is almost as fair to-
day as it was in that olden time when the wife of the
miller of Mensteie was sprited away by the fairies.
In the valley of the Devon the surface declines to less
than 50 feet above sea-level; and thence it rises south-
ward to 327 feet near Shannockhill, northward to 1000
at Wester Kirk Craig, 2094 at The Law, 2111 at King's
Seat Hill on the Dollar boundary, 2363 at Bencletjqh
(the loftiest summit of the Oohil Hills), and 1724 at
Burnfoot Hill, from which it again declines to close on
1000 feet at the northern border. The entire landscape,
whether we view the hills or the plain, is pleasant and
beautiful. A rising-ground, called the Kirk Craig and
the Cuninghar, which closes a fine plain stretching out
to it from the Abbey Craig near Stirling, has a strikingly
romantic appearance as approached from either the E or
the W, and is supposed to be ' the mount at the back
of the country,' the tulaick-cul-tir, whence the parish
derived its name. The rocks are mainly eruptive in the
hills, carboniferous in the plain. Red and grey porphy-
ries compose the summits of the central and loftiest
heights; and they exhibit some very fine varieties, and
contain large crystals of black schorl. Clay-slate is a
prevailing rock in the King's Seat chain ; and basaltic
rocks, in some instances containing curious decomposed
masses, occur on the lower heights. Micaceous schist,
too, is found, containing numerous garnets. Some veins
of copper ore were worked towards the middle of the 18th
century; but, after the expenditure upon them of a very
great sum of money, were abandoned as not defraying
the cost of mining. Silver, lead, cobalt, arsenic, and
sulphur seem also to exist, but in small quantities. A
rich variety of ironstone, and rich veins of iron ore of
the kidney kind, are in sufficient quantity to have been
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