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BARGATTON
in witchcraft annals as the scene of the ' Tragedy of
Bargarran's daughter, ' for which 5 persons were executed
at 'Paisley. See Arnot's Criminal Trials (17S5) ; vol.
iii, p. 167, of Chambers' Domestic Annals (1861) ; and
The Witches of Renfrewshire (1809 ; new ed. 1877).
Bargatton. See Balmaghib.
Bargeddie, a post office village in Old Monkland parish,
Lanarkshire, If mile WSW of its post-town, Coatbridge.
Here in the autumn of 1876 a church was opened for
the quoad sacra parish of Bargeddie, which, formed in
1875, is in the presbytery of Hamilton and synod of
Glasgow and Ayr. Geometrical Gothic in style, this
church consists of an aisled nave, semi-octagonal tran-
septs, and an apse, with a spire 130 feet high, stained-
glass windows, etc. A sessional school, with accom-
modation for 220 children, had (1879) a day and an
evening attendance of 235 and 49, and grants of £223,
8s. and £28, 6s. Pop. of village (1881) 100 ; of g. s.
parish (1881) 2980.
Bargrennan, a post office hamlet in Minnigaff parish,
W Kirkcudbrightshire, and a quoad sacra parish partly
also in Penninghame, Wigtownshire. The hamlet lies
on the Cree's left bank, 9 miles N by W of its post-town
Newton-Stewart ; at it are the manse and the neat little
church (1839; stipend, £120). Two public schools,
Bargrennan and Knowe, with respective accommodation
for 60 and 48 children, had (1S79) an average attendance
of 21 and 29, and grants of £37, 7s. 6d. and £38, 2s.
Pop. of q. s. parish, in the presbytery of Wigtown and
synod of Galloway, (1871) 428, of whom 228 were in
Penninghame, (1S81) 365.
Barhead. See Barrhead.
Barhill. See Barrhill.
Barholm, a coast estate, the property of Jas. Grant,
Esq., in the SE of Kirkmabreck parish, Kirkcudbright-
shire, 5J miles SE of Creetown. The old square Tower
of Barholm is fairly perfect, though uninhabited. It
has been identified with the ' Ellangowan ' of Guy
Mannering, and is said to have sheltered John Knox.
Barhullion, a conspicuous hill 450 feet high, in the
W of Glasserton parish, SE Wigtownshire.
Barjarg, a hamlet and an estate in Keir parish, Dum-
friesshire. The hamlet stands near the river Nith, 3-J
miles S of Thornhill. The estate belonged in the 16th
century to the Earl of Morton ; passed in 1857 to T.
Grierson, Esq. ; went afterwards, by marriage, to C.
Erskine, Esq. , advocate, who rose to the bench and took
the title of Lord Tinwald ; was subsequently purchased
by Dr Hunter, professor of divinity in Edinburgh
University, and now belongs to Wm. Francis Hunter-
Arundell, owner of 1947 acres in the shire, valued at
£1689 per annum. The mansion, Barjarg Tower, stands
amid finely-planted grounds.
Barlay Mill, in Girthon parish, Kirkcudbrightshire,
\ mile N of Gatehouse of Fleet — the humble birthplace
of Thomas Faed, RA. (b. 1S26), as also of his painter
brothers, James and John.
Barleyknowe, a hamlet in Newbattle parish, Edin-
burghshire, \ mile N of Gorebridge.
Barleyside, a village in Falkirk parish, Stirlingshire.
Barlocco, an estate, with a mansion, on the coast of
Rerwick, Kirkcudbrightshire. The mansion is a curious
edifice, overlooking the Solway Firth. Barlocco Bay is
a small encurvature of the Solway, 2| miles SW of
Balcary Point ; and Barlocco Haugh is a feature of the
coast immediately W of Barlocco Bay.
Barlocco, a peninsula, insulated at high water, in the
W of Borgue parish, S Kirkcudbrightshire. Lying at
the SE entrance of Fleet Bay, it is 2^ furlongs long, 1J
broad, and 35 feet high. Two small hamlets, Barlocco
and Barlocco-Croft, lie f mile to the NE.
Barmekin, a conical hill 800 feet high in the W of
Echt parish, SE Aberdeenshire, entirely planted with
Scotch fir, and crowned by remains of a prehistoric
fortress, 6J acres in extent, with 5 concentric ramparts,
not so vast as, but better preserved than, those of the
Caterthun. 'Druidical' circles adjoin (vol. i., p. 85, of
Hill Burton's Hist. Scot, ed. 1876).
BarmilL See Beith.
BARNS
Earmore, an estate, with a mansion, in S Knapdale
parish, Argyllshire. The mansion stands on the shore
of Loch Fyne, 2J miles N of Tarbert, and is modern,
large, and elegant.
Barmure, an estate in Mauchline parish, Ayrshire.
It belonged, in pre-Reformation times, to the monks of
Melrose ; and it passed, in 1606, to Lord Loudoun.
Barnbarroch, an estate, with a mansion of date 1780,
in Kirkinner parish, Wigtownshire, 4 miles SW of Wig-
town. It is the seat of Rt. Vans-Agnew, Esq. , owner
of 6777 acres in the shire, valued at £6997 per annum.
See also Colvend.
Barnbougle (Gael, barr-an-ioglain, 'point of the
marsh '), an ancient castle in Dalmeny parish, Linlith-
gowshire, within Dalmeny Park, and on the shore of
the Firth of Forth, 3 miles E of South Queensferry. It
belonged' to the Moubrays in the 12th century, was
sold in 1615 to Sir Thomas Hamilton, afterwards Earl
of Haddington, and was re-sold in 1662 to Sir Archibald
Primrose, Bart., who became Lord Justice General of
Scotland, from whom it has descended to the Viscounts
and Earls of Rosebery. Of unknown age, it stands on
a projecting rock-terrace, is hid from the immediate
shore by a mound or bulwark of earth, raised to protect
it from encroachment of the tide, and in 1880 was
entirely reconstructed according to the original plans.
Barncluith, a property in Hamilton parish, Lanark-
shire, on the left side of the river Avon, a little above
the town of Hamilton. A romantic dell here has, on a
bold bank about 250 feet high, three dwelling-houses
built about 1583 by John Hamilton, ancestor of Lord
Belhaven ; connected with them are an orchard, a kitchen
garden, and a terraced Dutch flower garden of antique
character and picturesque appearance. The property
belongs now to Lady Ruthven. The name Barncluith
is a corruption of Baron's Cleugh. See pp. 46, 47 of
Dorothy Wordsworth's Tour in Scotland (ed. by Princ.
Shairp, 1874).
Barnhill, an estate, with a hamlet and a mansion, in
Kinnoul parish, Perthshire. The hamlet has a post
office under Perth.
Barnhill, a village on the Links of Monifieth parish,
Forfarshire, with a station on the Dundee and Forfar
direct railway, 1 mile NE of Broijghty Ferry, and 4J
miles ENE of Dundee.
Barnhill. See Blantyre.
Barnhill, a suburban village in Barony parish, Lanark-
shire, in the eastern outskirts of Glasgow. It has a
straggling connection with the city ; and it contains the
Barony poorhouse, asylum, and hospital.
BarnhiU's Bed. See Minto.
Barnhourie, a sandbank off the SE coast of Kirkcud-
brightshire, from the mouth of the Urr eastward to the
estuary of the Nith. It has been fatal to many vessels,
especially to vessels navigated by strangers to the coast.
Barnkirk, a point, with a lighthouse, at the right or W
side of the mouth of the river Annan, in Dumfriesshire.
Barnkirk, abog in Penninghame parish, Wigtownshire,
in the immediate neighbourhood of Newton-Stewart.
A canoe, formed out of a single log, was exhumed here
in 1814; and a ball of tallow, weighing 27 lbs., was
found immediately above the canoe, at least 6 feet be-
neath the bog's surface.
Barnock. See Avondale.
Barns, an estate, with a mansion, in Cleish parish,
Kinross-shire.
Barns, a dismembered estate of the Burnett family in
Manor parish, Peeblesshire. The ivy-clad Tower of Barns,
on the Tweed, 4 miles WSW of Peebles, bears date 1498,
and is still entire : the neighbouring mansion (1773)
belongs now to the Earl of Wemyss.
Barns, an ancient baronial fortalice in the southern
extremity of Crail parish, Fife. It belonged to the
Cunninghams, and passed through various hands to the
Anstruthers, but it is now so ruinous as to be only
partially habitable, and that by farm servants. Drum-
mond of Hawthornden, spending some time in it about
1620, here wrote his macaronic burlesque Polemo Mid-
dinia, giving a satirical description of a quarrel between
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