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COALHEUGH
brown earthenware here has long exported its produce
to many parts of Scotland, and even to America.
Coalheugh, a copious chalybeate spring in Cromarty
parish, Cromartyshire. Situated in the front of a wooded
ravine, it originated in an abortive boring for coal, and
has been surmounted by a small dome of hewn stone.
Coalsnaughton, a collier village of Clackmannanshire,
in the parish and 1 mile S by E of the town of Tilli-
coultry. It has a public school. Pop. (1861) 795,
(1871) 723, (1881) 899.
Coalstoun or Colstoun House, a mansion in the
parish and 2\ miles S of the town of Haddington, on
the right bank of Gifford or Coalstoun Water. Here in
a silver box is preserved the ' Coalstoun pear,' one ver-
sion of whose legend runs as follows : — In the 13th cen-
tury a Broun of Coalstoun married the daughter of
Hugo of Yester, the famous warlock of Gifford, described
in Marmion. As the bridal party was on its way to
church, the wizard-lord stopped it beneath a pear-tree,
and, plucking one of the pears, gave it to his daughter,
saying that he had no dowry to bestow, but that as
long as that gift was safe good fortune would never
desert her or her descendants In 1805, Christian, only
child and heiress of Chs. Broun of Coalstoun, married
the ninth Earl of Dalhousie ; and, in 1863, Susan Geor-
giana, daughter and co-heiress of the Marquis of Dal-
housie, married the Hon. Rt. Bourke (b. 1827), who has
sat for Lynn from 1868 to 1881, and who was foreign
under-secretary from 1874 to 1880. Their Haddington-
shire estate, 2702 acres, is valued at £4843 per annum.
Coalton, a village in Kettle parish, Fife, 1J mile SE
of Kettle town.
Coalton, a village in "Wemyss parish, Fife, near the
coast and 1 J mile H of West Wemyss.
Coaltown, a village, with a public school, in Markinch
parish, Fife, 2 miles S of Markinch town.
Coalyburn, a hamlet on the SE border of Linton
parish, Peeblesshire, with a station (Macbie Hill) on the
Leadburn and Dolphinton railway, 4J miles WSW of
Leadburn Junction.
Coalyland or Collyland. See Alloa.
Coatbridge, a town of Old Monkland parish, Lanark-
shire. It stands, at 300 feet above sea-level, on the
Monkland Canal, and in the midst of a perfect network
of railways, being 2 miles W by S of Airdrie, 8| E of
Glasgow, and 34 W by S of Edinburgh. Fifty years
since it was only a village ; and its rapid extension is
due to its position in the centre of Scotland's chief
mineral field. The Airdrie and Coatbridge district com-
prises 21 active collieries ; and in or about the town are
5 establishments for the pig-iron manufacture — Calder,
Carnbroe, Gartsherrie, Langloan, and Summerlee — of
whose 41 furnaces 29 were in blast in 1879, when 8
malleable iron-works had 113 puddling furnaces and 19
rolling mills. Nor are these the only industries ;
boilers, tubes, tinplate, firebrick and fireclay, bricks and
tiles, oakum, and railway waggons being also manufac-
tured. Coatbridge, in its growth, has absorbed, or is
still absorbing, a number of outlying suburbs — Langloan,
Gartsherrie, High Sunnyside, Coats, Clifton, Drumpel-
lier, Dundyvan, Summerlee, Whifflet, Coatdyke, etc. ;
and the appearance of the whole, redeemed though it is
by some good architectural features, is far more curious
than pleasing. Fire, smoke, and soot, with the roar and
rattle of machinery, are its leading characteristics ; the
flames of its furnaces cast on the midnight sky a glow as
if of some vast conflagration. Wholly almost of recent
erection, it has stations on the Caledonian and North
British railways, a post office, with money order, savings'
bank, insurance, and railway telegraph departments,
branches of the Clydesdale, National, Royal, and Union
banks, 24 insurance agencies, 2 hotels, a literary associa-
tion, gas-works, a water company conjointly with Airdrie,
and a Saturday paper, the Airdrie and Coatbridge Adver-
tiser (1855). A theatre and music hall, seating 2000 spec-
tators, was opened in 1875 ; and at Langloan is the West
End Park, where in 1880 a red granite fountain, 20 feet
high, was erected in memory of Janet Hamilton (1795-
1873), the lowly Coatbridge poetess. Gartsherrie quoad
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COCKBURNLAW
sacra church (1839 ; lOSOsittings) costover£3300, and is a
prominent object, with a spire 136 feet high ; and Coats
quoad sacra church (1875 ; 1000 sittings) is a handsome
Gothic edifice, built from endowment by the late George-
Baird of Stitchell. Of 4 Free churches — Middle, East,
West, and Whifflet — the finest was built in 1875 ; and
other places of worship are a U.P. church (1872), a Con-
gregational church, an Evangelical Union church, a Bap-
tist church, a Wesleyan church (1874), St John's Epis-
copal church (1843-71), and two Roman Catholicehurches,
St Patrick's (1848) and St Mary's, Whifflet (1874).
Besides other schools noticed under Old Monkland,
Coatbridge public school, Langloan public school, and
St Patrick's Roman Catholic school, with respective ac-
commodation for 795, 388, and 582 children, had (1880)
an average attendance of 751, 373, and 456, and grants
of 739, 10s., £282, 14s. 2d., and £347, 7s. Pop. (1831)
741, (1841) 1599, (1851) 8564, (1861) 12,006, (1871)
15,802, (1881) 17,500, or, with Whifflet, 21,329.— Ord.
Sur., sh. 31, 1867. See Andrew Miller's Rise and Pro-
gress of Coatbridge and the Surrounding Neighbourhood
(Glas. 1864).
Coatdyke, a village chiefly in Old Monkland, but
partly also in New Monkland, parish, Lanarkshire, 1
mile WSW of Airdrie, and 1 E of Coatbridge, under
which it has a post office, with money order and savings'
bank departments. A U. P. mission station was opened
here in 1881. Pop. (1881) 1701.
Coates or West Coates. See Edinburgh.
Coats, a quoad sacra parish formed in 1874 from the
civil palish of Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, and includ-
ing part of the town of Coatbridge. It is in the pres-
bytery of Hamilton and synod of Glasgow and Ayr.
Pop. (1881) 3928.
Cobairdy, an estate, with a modern mansion, in Forgue
parish, NW Aberdeenshire, 5 miles NE of Huntly. Its
owner, Rt. Simpson, Esq. (b. 1S01), holds 1703 acres in
the shire, valued at £1660 per annum.
Cobbler. See Ben Arthur.
Cobinshaw, a station and an adjoining reservoir in
West Calder parish, Edinburghshire. The station is on
the Caledonian railway, 18 miles SW of Edinburgh. The
reservoir, lying 880 feet above sea-level, has an utmost
length from SSW to NNE of 1J mile, whilst its breadth
varies from 1 to 3J furlongs. Its head just falls within
Lanarkshire, and its western shore is closely followed by
the Carstairs and Edinburgh fork of the Caledonian rail-
way. Formed to supply the Union Canal, it presents
the appearance of a bleak natural lake ; in 1877 Mr Jn.
Anderson stocked it with 20,000 salmon and sea- trout
ova from the Tay, which seem to thrive well, ranging
from 2 to 3 lbs. in August 1880.
Coburty. See Aberdour, Aberdeenshire.
Cochno. See Cockno.
Cochrage Muir, an extensive tract of barren uplands
in Kinloch, Clunie, and Blairgowrie parishes, Perthshire,
4 A miles NW of Blairgowrie town. Covered with moss
and heather, it long supplied peats to a large extent of
surrounding country ; and it accidentally took fire in
the summer of 1S26, and continued to burn till saturated
with the snows of the following winter and spring.
Cochrane, an ancient barony on the W side of Abbey
parish, Renfrewshire. It belonged from the 14th cen-
tury to the family of Cochrane, of whom Sir Wm. Coch-
rane of Cowdon was ennobled as Baron Cochrane of
Dundonald in 1647, as Earl of Dundonald and Lord
Cochrane of Paisley and Ochiltree in 1669. By the
eighth Earl it was sold about 1760 ; and the greater
part of it now belongs to Houstoun of Johnstone.
Coekairney, an estate, with a mansion, in Dalgety
parish, Fife, 1J mile W of Aberdour.
Cock Burn. See Cookum.
Cockburnlaw, a conspicuous hill in Dunse parish,
Berwickshire, culminating 4 miles NNW of Dunse town.
Its base, 6 miles in circuit, is on three sides encompassed
by the Whitadder ; its conical top, rising to the height of
1065 feet above sea-level, shows traces of an ancient
camp, and serves as a landmark to mariners ; and its
rocks are granitic, while those of all the neighbouring
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