Gazetteer of Scotland

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parish, and battle-field, in St. Ninians
parish, Stirlingshire. The town stands
on Bannock rivulet, 2f nriles south-south-
east of Stirling, is a seat of flourishing
woollen manufacture, and has a post
office, with money order and telegraph
departments, under Stirling, a railway
station, Established, Free, and United
Presbyterian churches, and a public
school with about 323 scholars. Pop. of
the town, 2549 ; of the quoad sacra parish,
3281. — The battle-field, the scene of Bruce's
famous victory in 1314, lies on Bannock
rivulet, adjacent to the south end of St.
Ninians town, and retains, under an iron
grating, with surmounting flag-staff, frag-
ments of the large block of stone in which
Bruce planted his standard.
BANNOCKBURN - MUIR, suburb of
Bannockburn town, Stirlingshire. It has
a public school with about 136 scholars.
BANTASKINE, seat near Falkirk, Stir-
lingshire.
BANTON, quoad sacra parish, with
village, Itj mile north-east of Kilsyth,
Stirlingshire. It has a post office under
Denny. Pop. of the village, 461 ; of the
parish, 793.
BARACHNIE, village in Crossbill
section of Old Monkland parish, Lanark-
shire. Pop. 279.
BARASSIE, railway station, 1 mile from
Troon, Ayrshire.
BARBARAVTLLE, village in Kilmuir-
Easter parish, Ross-shire.
BARBASWALLS, vUlage in Ruthven
parish, Forfarshire.
BARBER, hamlet in Roseneath parish,
Dumbartonshire.
BARBIESTON, modernized old baronial
fortalice near Dalrymple, Ayrshire.
BARBRECK, seat and vale in Craignish
parish, Argyleshire. The vale is believed
to have been the scene of a battle between
the Dalriadans and the Norsemen.
BARCALDINE, estate, with modern
mansion and ancient castle, on Loch
Creran, Ardchattan parish, Argyleshire.
BARCAPLE, seat in Tongland parish,
Kirkcudbrightshire.
BARCLOSH, ruined ancient seat of Lord
Herries, in Kirkgunzeon parish, Kirkcud-
brightshire.
BARD, bold headland at south end of
Bressay Island, Shetland.
BARDOWIE, lake, 5 miles north-north-
west of Glasgow.
BARGALLY, seat in Minnigaff parish,
Kirkcudbrightshire.
BARGANY, seat in Dailly parish, Ayr-
shire.
BARGARRAN, place associated with a
notable trial for witchcraft, in Erskine
parish, Renfrewshire.
BARGATON, lake, 7 miles north-east of
Gatehouse, Kirkcudbrightshire.
BARGEDDIE, village and quoad sacra
parish in north of Lanarkshire. The
village stands 2\ miles west of Coatbridge,
was mostly built after 1871, and has a
post office under Glasgow, and flourishing
ironworks. The parish was constituted
in 1876 ; and the church was opened near
the end of that year, and cost, with the
manse, about £9000. Pop. of the village,
659 ; of the parish, 2889.
BARGRENNAN, quoad sacra parish,
comprising part of Minnigaff in Kirkcud-
brightshire, and part of Penningham in
"Wigtonshire. It has a post office under
Newton-Stewart, and a public school.
Pop. 203 and 163.
BARHEAD. See Barrhead.
BARHILL, eminence, with vestiges of
Roman fort, in Kirkintilloch parish,
Dumbartonshrie.
BARHILL, Ayrshire. See Barrhill.
BARHOLM, seat near Creetown, Kirk-
cudbrightshire.
BARHULLION, hill in Glasserton parish,
Wigtonshire.
BARJARG, village and estate in Keir
parish, Dumfriesshire.
BARLEYSIDE, village in Falkirk parish,
Stirlingshire.
BARLOCCO, seat in Rerrick parish,
Kirkcudbrightshire.
BARMEKIN, lofty hill, with ancient cir-
cular f ortification,in Echt parish, Aberdeen-
shire.
BARMORE, peninsula and seat on west
side of Loch Fyne, 2^ miles north of
Tarbert, Argyleshire.
BARNBARROCH, place in Colvend
parish, Kirkcudbrightshire. It has a
public school with about 66 scholars.
BARNBARROCH, seat in Kirkinner
parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
BARNBOUGLE, splendid edifice of 1880-
82, with fragment of ancient castle, on
the Firth of Forth, in Dalmeny parish,
Linlithgowshire.
BARNCLUITH, curious suite of old build-
ings and gardens, on bold bank of Avon
river, between Cadzow Castle and Hamd-
ton, Lanarkshire.
BARNHILL, eastern suburb of Glasgow.
The Barony poorhouse is here, and has
accommodation for 1500 inmates ; and a
new hospital in connection with it was
opened in 1880, and has accommodation
for 300 patients.
BARNHILL, village in Blantyre parish,
Lanarkshire. Pop. 455.
BARNHILL, village in Monifieth parish,
Forfarshire. Pop. 396.
BARNHILL, seat in Kinnoul parish,
Perthshire.
BARNIEL, place on west side of Loch
Eck, Argyleshire.
BARNKIRK, small hill in Annan parish,
Dumfriesshire.
BARNOCK, place, with public school, in
Avondale parish, Lanarkshire.
BARNS, a seat of the Earl of Wemyss,
on the Tweed, near influx of the Manor,
Peeblesshire.
BARNS, estate in Cleish parish, Kinross-
shire.
BARNS, ruined mansion in Crail parish,