Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 1

COLLACE
presbytery of Mull and synod of Argyll ; the living is
worth £168. The parish church (1802 ; 350 sittings)
stands near the middle of the island. There is also a
Free church ; and two public schools, Acha and Arna-
bost, with respective accommodation for 72 and 49
children, had (1880) an average attendance of 35 and
22, and grants of £41, 16s. and £32, 13s. Valuation
(1881) £41S0, 13s. Pop. (1801) 1162, (1851) 1109, (1861)
781, (1871) 723, (1881) 643.
Collace, a village and a parish of Gowrie district, E
Perthshire. The village stands 4 miles S by E of Wood-
side station, and 8 NE of its post-town Perth ; it con-
sists of two parts, called Collace and Kirkton of Collace,
the latter § mile SW of the former.
The parish, containing also the village of Kinrossie,
is bounded N¥ and NE by Cargill, E by Abernyte, SE
by Kinnaird and the Bandirron section of Caputh in
Forfarshire (detached), and SW by St Martins. Its
greatest length from E to W is 3J miles ; its greatest
breadth from N to S is 2§ miles ; and its area is 2933
acres, of which 6 are water. The surface, flatfish in the
N and W, has a general east-south-eastward rise, attain-
ing 383 feet above sea-level near Milnton, 440 near
Saucher, 532 near Balmalcolm, 1012 on Dunsinane Hill,
and 1182 on Black Hill, of which the two last culmi-
nate close to the Abernyte border and belong to the
Sidlaw range. Excellent sandstone is plentiful ; and
the northern district, with its light black loamy soil, is
in a state of the highest cultivation, whilst the south-
eastern is variously hill-pasture and upland heath. A
fifth or rather more of the area is under wood. Dun-
sinane Hill and Dunsinane House, the two chief features
of the parish, are separately noticed ; to the owner of
the latter the entire parish belongs. Collace is in the
presbytery of Perth and s}'nod of Perth and Stirling ;
the living is worth £219. The parish church (1813 ;
410 sittings) is a neat Gothic edifice, with a square
tower. There is also a Free church ; and a public school,
with accommodation for 130 children, had (1880) an
average attendance of 75, and a grant of £64, 5s. Valua-
tion (1881) £3739, 19s. lid. Pop. (1801) 562, (1831)
738, (1861) 534, (1871) 456, (1881) 409.— Ord. Sur., sh.
48, 1868.
Colla Firth, a bay and a hamlet in Northmaven par-
ish, Shetland.
Collairney, a ruined fortalice in Dunbog parish, Fife,
4J miles E by S of Newburgh. For nearly five centuries
it belonged to the Barclays, hereditary bailies of rega-
lity of Lindores.
Coil-Earn Castle, the seat of Alex. Mackintosh, Esq.,
in the parish and near the town of Auchterarder, Perth-
shire. Completed in 1872, it is a picturesque old-
fashioned building, with its wainscoting, painted glass,
and vaulted ceilings, and commands a magnificent view.
College. See Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Collessie, a post-office village and a parish in the N
of Fife. The village has a station on the North British
railway, 2h miles NNW of its post-town Ladybank, this
being 2S| miles NNE of Edinburgh, and 18 J SE by E
of Perth.
The parish contains also the important junction and
the rising police burgh of Ladybank, and the villages
of Giffordtown and Edenstown. It is bounded N by
Abdie, NE by Monimail, E by Cults, S by Kettle, SW
by Auchtermuchty, and NW by Newburgh. Its greatest
length from E to W is 4f miles ; its greatest breadth
from N to S is 3| miles ; and its area is 8702J acres, of
of which 5i are water. The river Eden flows 2J miles
along all the Kettle border, and lower down, 1J mile
along the boundary with Cults ; its channel was straight-
ened about 1787, so that its floods have long been a
thing of the past. Rossie Loch, too, which covered
upwards of 300 acres, was drained in 1740, its bed being
no w good meadow and pasture land. Part of the 'Howe
of Fife,' the surface, sinking to 100 feet above sea-level
in the E, is almost a dead flat over much the larger
portion of the parish, but, close to the western and the
northern border, attains 427 feet near Craigoverhouse
and 642 at Woodhead. Greenstone has been quarried,
COLLUTHIE
as also sandstone in a less degree ; and marl is plentiful.
The soil of the arable lands is deep and fertile, resting
upon a trap-rock bottom, and having a fine southern
exposure ; since 1860 great improvements have been
carried out on the Melville estate, in the way of build-
ing, wire-fencing, clearing, replanting, and reclaiming.
Plantations cover a considerable extent, about one-
seventh of the entire area. Near the village are a mega-
lith 6 feet in girth by 9 in height, and a tumulus,
' Gask Hill,' which, measuring 120 by 100 feet, and 12
feet high, was opened in 1876 by Mr Anderson of the
Edinburgh Antiquarian Museum. In the NW, too, stood
two ancient forts, commanding the pass from central
Fife to Strathearn ; and near the easternmost one coins
have been found of Edward I. of England, along with
a cinerary urn and other relics of antiquity. Hugh
Blair, D.D. (1718-1800), author of Lectures on Rhetoric,
commenced his ministry here in 1742 ; and the courtier
and diplomatist, Sir James Melville (1535-1607), held
the estate of Hallhill. The principal mansions are Mel-
ville House, Kinloch, Pitlair, Rankeilour, Meadow Wells,
Rossie, and Lochiehead. Collessie is in the presbytery
of Cupar and synod of Fife ; the living is worth £436.
The parish church is a very old building, long and nar-
row, with not more than 600 sittings ; but in 1881 the
erection was sanctioned of another Established church
— to seat 400 and cost £2050 — at Ladybank, where a
new Free church was built in 1S76 at a cost of £3000.
Two public schools, Collessie and Ladybank, with re-
spective accommodation for 129 and 273 children, had
(1SS0) an average attendance of 78 and 236, and grants
of £73, 13s. and £227, 16s. Valuation (1881) £13,182,
3s. Pop. (1801) 930, (1831) 1162, (1861) 1560, (1871)
1703, (1SS1) 1982, of whom 1072 were in Ladybank.—
Ord. Sur., sh. 40, 1867.
Collie Law. See Channelkiek.
Collieston. See Colliston.
Collin, a village, with a public school, in Torthorwald
parish, Dumfriesshire, near the left bank of Lochar
Water, 1| mile N by W of Racks station, and 3J miles
E of Dumfries, under which it has a post office.
Collin, an estate, with a mansion, in Renvick parish,
S Kirkcudbrightshire, 8 miles SSE of Castle-Douglas.
Collin. See Scone.
Collinswell, an estate, with a mansion, in the parish
and 1 mile WNW of the town of Burntisland, Fife.
Collinton. See Colinton.
Colliston, an estate, with a mansion, in the Glenessland
district of Dunscore parish, Dumfriesshire, about 7 miles
WSW of Auldgirth station. It belonged to the father
of the eminent John Welch (1570-1623), who probably
was born here ; and it is now the property of Chas.
Copland, Esq. (b. 1849 ; sue. 1870), who holds 2554
acres in the shire, valued at £1995 per annum.
Colliston, a fishing village in Slains parish, Aberdeen-
shire, on a romantic small bay, J mile S of Slains church,
and 6 miles E by S of Ellon, under which it has a post
office. Eighty years since a famous smuggling place, it
offers a picturesque appearance, straggling among cliffs
and over braes ; and it carries on a vigorous trade in
fishing for haddocks, cod, whitings, and turbot, and in
preparing 'Colliston speldings,' or haddocks dried on
the rock.
Colliston, a village in St Vigeans parish, Forfarshire,
4 miles NW of Arbroath. It has a station on the Ar-
broath and Forfar section of the Caledonian, a new
board school (1877), a Free church, and an Established
church. The last, erected as a chapel of ease in 1871,
and raised to quoad sacra status in 1875, was enlarged
by the addition of a transept in 1876, and now contains
500 sittings. Colliston House, in the vicinity, is said
to have been built by Cardinal Beaton for his son-in-law.
Colluthie, a mansion in Moonzie parish, NW Fife, 4|
miles NW by N of Cupar. Said to have been built
about 1356 by Sir William Ramsay, son-in-law and suc-
cessor of the last Earl of Fife of the ancient Macduff
line, it is manifestly of later date, yet is remarkable for
the thickness of its walls, and for arched doors and win-
dows ; and it long suffered such neglect as to becoma
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