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AUCHENREOCH
Auchenreoch. See Achenkeoch.
Auchenroath, a hamlet and a mansion (W. Robertson,
Esq.) in Rothes parish, Elginshire, If mile WNW of
Rothes town.
Auchensaugh or Auchenshauch, a broad-based hill
in Douglas parish, Lanarkshire, 2J miles SSE of Douglas
town. Its cairn-crowned top, 1286 feet above sea-level,
was the meeting-place of the Cameronians (27 July
1712), who, entering on the ' Auchenshauch Declaration
and Engagement,' renewed therein the Covenants, while
protesting against all schism and sinful separation from
the Church of Scotland (themselves, to wit), and solemnly
binding themselves to extirpate Prelacy, and all rites,
ceremonies, heresies, and false doctrines. The ' Auch-
enshauch Wark ' is memorable as the organising of the
first Secession — the Reformed Presbyterian Church. See
vol. viii. , pp. 237-242, of Hill Burton's History of Scotland
(ed. 1876).
Auchenskeigh, a romantic sylvan dell in Dairy parish,
Ayrshire, 2 miles from Dairy town. Limestone rocks
here are rich in fossils ; and a cavern, 183 feet long and
from 5 to 12 broad and high, penetrates a precipitous
limestone crag, and is so panelled and ceiled with cal-
careous incrustations as to present the appearance of
Gothic fretwork.
Auchenskeoch, an estate with a ruined castle, which
passed from the Crichtons to the M'Kenzies, in Colvend
parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, 5J miles ESE of Dalbeattie.
Auchentibber. See Auchixtieber.
Auchentorlie, an estate, with a mansion, in Old
Kilpatrick parish,' Dumbartonshire. The mansion stands
amid wooded grounds in the north-western vicinity of
Bowling Bay. The estate includes a portion of the
Kilpatrick hills, and contains there vestiges of a Cale-
donian hill-fort.
Auchentoshan, a mansion amid wooded grounds in
Old Kilpatrick parish, Dumbartonshire, in the western
vicinity of Duntoeher. Several vestiges of Antoninus'
■Wall are within the grounds.
Auchentroig. See Atjchintroig.
Aucherachan. See Acherachan.
Auchernach. See Achernach.
Auchinairn. See Auchenairx.
Auchinarrow. See Achinareow.
Auehinbee. See Achinbee.
Auchinblae, a village in Fordoun parish, Kincardine-
shire, on a gentle rising ground, adjacent to the rivulet
Luther, amid the beautiful scenery of Strathfinella, 2J
miles HW of Fordoun station, and 5J NNE of Laur-
encekirk. It holds under Mr Farquharson ; contains
many substantial houses, and a flax-spinning mill ;
presents a clean thriving appearance ; and has a post
office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph
departments, under Fordoun, 2 hotels, branches of the
North of Scotland and Aberdeen Town and County
banks, a National Security savings' bank, a town-hall,
and a mutual improvement society. Hand-loom linen
weaving is extinct ; cattle markets are held on the third
Thursday of April, the "Wednesday after the second
Tuesday of May, old style, and the first Thursday of
July ; a cattle fair, called Paldy Fair, is held on the
first Wednesday of July ; a horse fair is held on the
Friday after the first Tuesday of July, old style ; and
hiring markets are held on the 26 May, or Old Whit-
sunday, and on the 22 November, or Old Martinmas.
Pop. (1861) 570, (1871) 496, (1881) 411.
Auchincarroch, an estate, with a mansion, in Bon-
hill parish, Dumbartonshire, 2 miles NE of Alexan-
dria.
Auchincass. See Achincass.
Auchinchew, a romantic vale in the S of Arran, Bute-
shire, descending 2 miles southward to the Sound of
Pladda, 7 miles S of Lamlash. It begins at the base of
Cnoo na Garbad (959 feet), a hill commanding an exten-
sive view, and supposed to have been a watch-post of the
Dalriadans, and it expands into a rocky amphitheatre,
walled with lofty mural cliffs, ribbed with ravines, and
streaked with leaping rills. Essiemore waterfall is
the chief one of the cascades ; makes a sheer leap of
AUCHINDOIR AND KEARN
about 100 feet ; is sometime overarched by a brilliant
rainbow ; and serves, to a distance of some miles, as a
landmark to mariners.
Auchincloch, a hamlet in Kilsyth parish, Stirling-
shire, 3J miles ENE of Kilsyth town. Numerous
human bones have been exhumed in fields adjacent to
the hamlet, and are believed to be those of men who
fell in the battle of Kilsyth, fought in 1645.
Auchineloich, a ruined ancient castle in Ochiltree
parish, Ayrshire.
AuchLncraw, a village in Coldingham parish, Berwick-
shire, 2 miles WSW of Reston station, and 3 NNW of
Chirnside. It has a post office under Ayton, and a pub-
lic school ; and it was notable, in old times, for reputed
pranks of witchcraft. The school, with accommodation
for 104 children, had (1879) an average attendance of
47, and a grant of £39, 18s.
Auchindarroeh, a mansion in Knapdale, Argyllshire.
It is separated from Lochgilphead by the Crinan Canal,
but most of that town is built on its estate. It is the
seat of Alex. Campbell, Esq., owner of 7017 acres, valued
at £1600 per annum.
Auchindinny, a village and an estate near the mutual
boundary between Lasswade and Glencorse parishes,
Edinburghshire. The village stands in a hollow, on
Glencross Burn, near its influx to the North Esk river,
J mile E of Greenlaw Barracks, and 2J miles NNE of Peni-
cuick. Auchindinny House, J mileS of the village, was
the residence of Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831), author of
The Mail of Feeling, and at it died Archibald Fletcher
(1745-1828), the 'father of burgh reform.'
Auchindoir and Kearn, a united parish of W Aber-
deenshire, containing the village of Lumsden, 3J miles
NNW of Alford, and 8 miles SSW of Gartly station,
with which it communicates daily by the Strathdon
coach. Founded some fifty years since by Mr Leith
Lumsden of Clova, it has a post office under Aberdeen,
a branch of the North of Scotland Bank, an inn, a Free
church (1843), and a U.P. church (1803 ; 203 sittings).
Fairs are held here on the first Monday of January,
February, March, April, and December, and (old style)
on the last Tuesday of April, the last Friday of May,
and the third Tuesday of August. Pop. (1840) 243,
(1871) 507.
Kearn is much smaller than Auchindoir, of which it
forms a south-eastern adjunct, and to which it was
annexed in 1811, having from 1722 to 1808 been united
to Forbes. The present parish is bounded N by Rhynie-
Essie, E by Clatt and Tullynessle-Forbes, S by Kil-
drummy, and W by Cabrach. Very irregular in out-
line, it has an extreme length from N to S of 6J miles,
a width from E to W of from 3 J to 5 J miles, and a land
area of 15,310 acres. The southern boundary is traced
for If mile by the river Don, and further westward
by its affluent, the Mossat ; whilst the Bogie has
here a north-north-eastward course of about 4 miles,
chiefly along the Rhynie border, being formed near the
parish church by the burns of Corchinan, Glenny, and
Craig, which, rising in mossy ground, have a strong
antiseptic quality. The Craig flows eastward through
a romantic glen, the Den of Craig, makes several beauti-
ful falls, and in the floods of 1829 rose IS feet above its
ordinary level. The surface is everywhere hilly, emi-
nences in the half of the parish to the E of the highroad
from Huntly to Alford being Badingair Hill (1556 feet
above sea-level), Brux Hill (1558), Edinbanchory Hill
(1531), and Lord Arthur's Cairn (1699), all of them
belonging to the Correen Hills. In the western half
rise the "White Hill of Bogs (1341 feet), the Hill of
Tombhreach (1409), and the Hill of John's Cairn (1745);
but one and all are overtopped by the pyramidal, cairn-
crowned Buck of Cabrach (2368 feet), which culminates
upon the western border, at the extremity of a narrow
strip of Auchindoir, projecting into the parish of Cabrach.
White sandstone prevailing over a wide tract from N to
S, and in places of very fine quality, has been extensively
worked for building purposes ; and mica slate abounds
in large masses on the Correen Hills, and has been
quarried for paving flags. Greenstone, limestone, ser-
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