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DRUMMOSSIE MUIR
Drummossie Muir, a bleak, broad-backed, sandstone
ridge on the mutual border of Dores, Inverness, Daviot,
and Croy parishes, NE Inverness-shire. Forming the
north-eastern and declining portion of the continuous
south-eastern hill-screen of the Great Glen of Scotland,
it presents to the view, from the neighbourhood of In-
verness, an almost straight sky-line ; has an average
summit elevation of 800 feet above sea-level ; and in-
cludes, at the NE end, the battlefield of Culloden.
Drummuir. See Botriphnie.
Drumnadrochit, a hamlet, with an hotel, in Urquhart
and Glenmoriston parish, Inverness-shire, in the mouth
of Glen Urquhart, 1$ mile W by S of Temple Pier, on
the W shore of Loeh Ness, and 14 miles SW of Inver-
ness, under which it has a post office, with money order,
savings' bank, and telegraph departments. Cattle fairs
are held here on the Tuesdays of October and November
before Beauly.
Drumnetermont. See Dkummietermost.
Drumoak, a parish partly in Kincardine, but chiefly
in Aberdeenshire, traversed by the Deeside section of
the Great North of Scotland, with Drum and Park
stations thereon, 10 and 11 miles WSW of Aberdeen,
under which Drumoak has a post office. It is bounded
N by Echt and Peterculter, SE by Peterculter, S by
Durris, and SW by Banchory-Ternan ; and rudely re-
sembling a triangle in shape, with apex to ENE, it has
an utmost length from E to W of 5J miles, an utmost
breadth from N to S of 3 J miles, and an area of 7401 J
acres, of which 2021i are in Kincardineshire, and 164J
are water. The broadening Dee flows 4J miles east-
north-eastward along all the boundary with Durris ; and
Gormack Burn 5| miles eastward along that with Echt
and Peterculter, to form with Leuehar Burn the Burn of
Culter, which itself for J mile continues to separate Drum-
oak and Peterculter. Towards the SWthe shallow, weedy
Loch of Drum (6 x 2J furl. ) lies at an altitude of 225 feet.
Sinking along the Burn of Culter to 123, and along the
Dee to 82, feet above sea-level, the surface rises to 350
feet on Ord Hill, 414 on the central ridge of the Hill of
Drum, and 254 at the parish church. Gneiss and granite
are the prevailing rocks ; and the soil, light and sandy
along the Dee, elsewhere ranges from good black loamy
on the higher southern slope to gravelly and moorish
overlying moorband or retentive blue stony clay. Nearly
a fourth of the entire area is under wood, over a sixth
is pastoral or waste, and the rest is in cultivation. James
Gregory (1638-75), the greatest philosopher of his age
but one, that one being Newton, was born in Drumoak,
his father being parish minister ; and so perhaps was his
brother David (1627-1720), who himself had a singular
turn for mechanics and mathematics. Arrow-heads,
three stone coffins, and silver coins have been found ;
a curious sculptured stone was transferred in 1822 from
Keith's Muir to the top of Hawk Hillock in the policies
of Park ; but the chief antiquity is the Tower of Drum,
which is separately noticed, as likewise are the man-
sions of Drum and Park. Five proprietors hold each an
annual value of more, and3ofless, than£100. Drumoak
is in the presbytery and synod of Aberdeen ; the living
is worth £230. The church, J mile N of Park station,
is a good Gothic edifice of 1836, containing 650 sittings;
and a Free church, erected at a cost of £1500, was opened
at Park in January 1880. Drumoak public, Sunnyside
female Church of Scotland, and Glashmore sessional
school, with respective accommodation for 108, 33, and
49 children, had (1880) an average attendance of 63, 25,
and 22, and grants of £61, 16s., £18, 2s., and £15, 6s.
Valuation (1881) £5678, 19s. 8d., of which £1025,
19s. 5d. was for the Kincardineshire section. Pop.
(1801) 648, (1831) 804, (1861) 996, (1871) 1032, (1881)
930.— Ord. Sur., shs. 76, 77, 66, 1871-76.
Drumochter (Gael. druim-uacJidar, ' upper ridge '), a
mountain pass (1500 feet) over the Central Grampians,
on the mutual border of Perth and Inverness shires,
5J miles S of Dalwhinnie station, and 2 NNW of Dal-
naspidal. Flanked to the W by the Boar of Badenoch
(2452 feet), Bruach nan Iomalrean (3175), and Ben
Udlaman (3306), to the W by Creagan Doire an Donaidh
DRUNKIE
(2367) and Chaoruinn (3004), it is traversed both by
the Great North Road from Perth to Inverness and by
the Highland railway, being the highest point reached
by any railway in the Kingdom. Snow often drifts
here to a great extent, lying 30 feet deep in the storm
of March 1881.— Ord. Sur., sh. 63, 1873.
Drumochy. % See Drummochy.
Drumore, a lochlet (1 x \ furl.) on the mutual border
of Kirkmichael and Maybole parishes, Ayrshire, J mile
NNW of Kirkmichael village.
Drumore, a seaport village in Kirkmaiden parish,
SW Wigtownshire, on a small bay of its own name, at
the W side of Luce Bay, 5 miles N by W of the Mull of
Galloway, and VJ\ S by E of Stranraer, with which it
communicates daily by coach. It has a post office, with
money order and savings' bank departments, 4 inns, a
public school, a small harbour with a quay and good
anchorage, and ruins of a castle, still habitable in 1684 ;
and it carries on some small commerce in the export of
agricultural produce, and the import of coals and lime.
Drumore, an estate, with a mansion, in Prestonpans
parish, Haddingtonshire, on the coast, 1J mile ENE of
Musselburgh. Its owner, Col. William Aitchison (b.
1827 ; sue. 1846), holds 121 acres in the shire, valued
at £S72 per annum, including £538 for minerals.
Drumore, a station at the mutual boundary of Anwoth
and Kirkmabreck parishes, SW Kirkcudbrightshire, on
the Castle-Douglas and Portpatrick railway, 4j miles
ENE of Creetown.
Drumour. See Dunkeld, Little.
Drumpellier, extensive iron-works and mineral pits
of Old Monkland parish, Lanarkshire, in the western
vicinity of Coatbridge. Drumpellier House, 1J mile
W of the town, is the property of D. Carrick-Buchanan,
Esq. of Carradale, who holds 868 acres in Lanark-
shire, valued at £500 per annum.
Drumry, an estate on the W border of New Kilpatrick
parish, Dumbartonshire, 2J miles ESE of Duntocher.
From the Callendar family it passed in 1346 to the
Livingstones, and from Sir James Hamilton of Fynart
in 1528 to Laurence Crawfurd of Kilbirnie, ancestor of
the Crawfurd-Polloks of Pollok. Some ruins on it
have been thought to be those of a chapel which he
founded, but more probably are a remnant of Drumry
Castle.
Drumsargard or Drumsharg, an ancient barony in
Cambuslang parish, Lanarkshire. Comprising nearly
two-thirds of the parish, it belonged successively to the
Oliphauts, Murrays, Douglases, and Hamiltons, and
changed its name in the 17th century to Cambuslang.
Its stately castle, crowning a round flat-topped mound,
20 feet high, 1J- mile ESE of Cambuslang church, has
left scarcely a vestige.
Drumsharg. See Drumsaegard.
Drumshoreland, a station and a moor in Uphall
parish, Linlithgowshire. The station is on the Edin-
burgh and Bathgate section of the North British, 1 mile
S of Broxburn, 7f miles E by N of Bathgate, and 11| W
of Edinburgh. The moor, extending from the southern
vicinity of the station to the Almond or Edinburgh-
shire border, comprises some 200 acres of uncultivated
land, one-half of it covered with natural wood.
Drumsleet. See Troqueer.
Drumsturdy, a straggling village in Monifieth parish,
Forfarshire, at the N base of Laws Hill, 6 miles ENE
of Dundee.
Drumtochty Castle, a mansion in Fordoun parish,
Kincardineshire, on the left bank of Luther Water near
its source, 1 mile NNE of Strathfinella Hill (1358 feet),
2 miles WNW of Auchinblae village, and 4J NW of
Fordoun station. A splendid Gothic edifice, built at a
cost of £30,000 from designs by Gillespie Graham, and
standing in finely- wooded grounds, it is the seat of Major
Andrew Gammell of Countesswells, who holds in Kin-
cardineshire 4823 acres, valued at £2224, 9s. per annum.
Drumvaich, a hamlet in Kilmadock parish, Perth-
shire, on the left bank of the Teith, 4 miles WNW of
Doune.
Drunkie, a loch on the mutual border of Aberfoyle
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