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on the right or opposite banlc of tlie stream stands the
ruined castle of Bannachra, where in July 1592 Sir
Humphry Colqiilioun, tlie Laird of Luss, was besieged
by an invading party of Macfarlanes and Macgregors.
The loophole still is shown through which he was shot
dead by an arrow, guided by the treacherous torch of
one of his own servants. At Strone, 3 miles ESE of
Garclochhead, was fought the bloody clan conflict of
Gleufruin in 1603. Early in that year Allaster Mac-
gregor of Glenstra, followed by 400 men, chiefly of his
own clan, but including also some of the clans Cameron
and Anverich, armed with ' halberschois, pow-aixes,
twa-handit swordis, bowis and arrowis, and with hag-
butis and pistoletis,' advanced into the territory of Luss.
Alexander Colquhoun, under his royal commission,
granted the year before in consequence of the Macgre-
gors' outrage at Glenfinlas, had raised a force which
some writers state to have amoxinted to 300 horse and
500 foot. ' On 7 Feb. the Macgregors, ' says Mr Fraser,
' were in Glenfruin in two divisions, one of them at the
head of the glen, and the other in ambuscade near the
farm of Strone, at a hollow or ravine called the Crate.
The Colquhouns came into Glenfruin from the Luss
side, which is opposite Strone — probably by Glen Luss
and Glen Mackurn. Alexander Colquhoun pushed on
his forces in order to get through the glen before en-
countering the Macgregors; but, aware of his approach,
Allaster Macgregor also pushed forward one division of
his forces and entered at the head of the glen in time
to prevent his enemy from emerging from the upper end
of the glen, whilst his brother, John Macgregor, with
the division of his clan, which lay in ambuscade, by a
detour took the rear of the Colquhouns, which prevented
their retreat down the glen without fighting their way
through that section of the Macgregors who had got in
their rear. The success of the stratagem by which the
Colquhouns were thus placed between two fires seems to
be the only way of accounting for the terrible slaughter
of the Colquhouns and the much less loss of the Mac-
gregors. The Colquhouns soon became unable to main-
tain their ground, and, falling into a moss at the farm
of Auchingaich, they were thrown into disorder, and
made a hasty and disorderly retreat, which proved even
more disastrous than the conflict, for they had to force
their way through the men led by John Macgregor,
whilst they were pressed behind by Allaster, who,
reuniting the two divisions of his army, continued the
pm-suit." All who fell into the victors' hands were in-
stantly slain ; and the chief of the Colquhouns barely
escaped with his life after his horse had been killed
under him. Of the Colquhouns 140 were slain, and
many more wounded, among them a number of women
and children. "When the pursuit was over, the work of
plunder commenced. Hundreds of live stock were
carried off, and many of the houses of the tenantry were
burned to the ground. The reckoning, however, was
speedy, for on 3 April the name of Gregor or Macgregor
was for ever abolished by Act of the Privy Council ; and
by 2 March 1604 thirty-five of the clan Gregor had
been executed, among them Allaster himself. — Ord.
Sur., shs. 38, 30, 1871-66. See William Fraser's adefs
of Colquhoun and tlicir Country (Edinb. 1869).
Fuda, a small fertile island of Barra parish. Outer
Hebrides, Inverness-shire, J mile NE of the nearest
point of Barra island. It exhibits a number of granite
veins, impregnated with iron. Of its 6 inhabitants, in
1871, 4 were males ; of the same number, in 1881, 5
were females.
Fuinafort, a place in Eilfinichen and Eilvickeon
parish, Mull island, Argyllshire, 6 miles from Bonessan.
It has a post office under Oban.
Fuirdstone, an ancient tower on Wester Balnabriech
farm, in Caraldston parish, Forfarshire. Demolished
early in the present century, it formerly gave its name
to the parish.
Fulden. See Foulden.
Fulgae, a lofty skerry of Shetland, on the NW coast
of Papa Stour island. It rises almost murally from the
sea, and is pierced with caverns.
FuUarton. See Maryton.
FuUarton. See Tollcross.
FuUarton, an Ayrshire burgh of barony within the
bounds of the parliamentary burgh of Irvine, but lying
in Dundonald parish, on the left or opposite bank of
the river Irvine. With Irvine it is connected by a
handsome stone four-arch bridge of 1746, and from 1690
to 1823 it was supposed to belong to Irvine parish,
having in the former of those years been technically
united thereto ; but, an appeal being made to the Court
of Session in 1823, it was found to have legally belonged
all along to Dundonald. An Established church, built
as a chapel of ease in 1836 at a cost of £2000, contains 900
sittings, and in 1874 was raised to quoad sacra status,
its parish being in Ayr presbytery and the sjiiod of
Glasgow and Ayr. There are also a Free church and a
public school. See Irvine and Dundonald. Pop. of
parish (1881) 4009.— OrtZ. Sur., sh. 22, 1865.
FuUarton House, a seat of the Duke of Portland in
Dundonald parish, Ayrshire, IJ mile ESE of Troon. The
estate around it tielonged to the Foulertouns or FuUar-
tons of that ilk from the 13th century till 1805, when
it was sold to the third Duke of Portland by Col. Wil-
liam FuUarton (1754-1808). This gallant soldier and
author, immortalised in Burns's Vision, was born at
FuUarton House, which was built by his father in 1745.
It has since been twice enlarged by the addition of
wings, and what was once the back is now the front — a
great improvement, any sacrifice of architectural grace
being more than compensated by the fact that the house
now faces the Firth of Clyde and isle of Arran. That
Louis Napoleon stayed here in 1839 is false ; but the
fourth Duke's third son, the Conservative leader and
sportsman. Lord George Bentinck (1802-48), passed
much of his boyhood at FuUarton. John William
Arthur Charles James Cavendish Bentinck, present and
sixth Duke since 1716 (b. 1857 ; sue. 1879), holds
24,787 acres in Ayrshire, valued at £60,533 per annum,
including £10,708 for harbour works, and £16,199 for
minerals. — Ord. Sur., sh. 22, 1865. See LAKGWELLand
the Eev. J. Kirkwood's Troon and Dundonald (3d ed.,
Kilmar., 1881).
Fulton. See Bedrule.
Fulwood Moss, a former peat-moss in Houston parish,
Renfrewshire, a little W of Houston station, and ?A miles
NW of Paisley. Extending over 98 acres, it was re-
claimed by the Glasgow Corporation in 1879-80 at a
cost of £4539, no fewer than 1882 waggons, or fully
12,000 tons, of Glasgow rubbish being shot into the
moss. The reclamation, besides giving work to 300 of
the unemployed, has proved a financial success, good
crops of potatoes having already been raised from what
was previously worthless ground. — Ord. Sur., sh. 30,
1866.
Funtack, a burn in Moy and Dalarossie parish, Inver-
ness-shire, winding 2| miles east-south-eastward along
Strathdearn, from Loch Moy to the river Findhorn. —
Ord. Sur., sh. 84, 1876.
Funzie, a bay of Fetlar island, Shetland, the only ling-
fishing station in the island. It is overlooked by re-
mains of a pre-Eeformation chapel.
Furnace, a post-ofSce village in Inverary parish, Ar-
gyllshu'c, on the shore of Loch Fyne, in the mouth of
Glenleacainn, 8 miles SSW of Inverary town. It took
its name from an iron smelting work of the early part
of the present century, but it now depends on the great
granite quarry of DtTN Leaoainn, started in 1841, and
rendered famous by its 'monster blasts' of Oct. 1871,
Sept. 1876, and Sept. 1880. In the glen, a little way
above the village, is a gunpowder manufactory, consist-
ing of small houses scattered over a considerable area.
Fushiebridge, a village in Borthwick parish, Edin-
burghshire, near the left bank of Gore Water, 1 mile S
by E of Gorebridge. Across the stream lies Fushiebridge
station on the Waverley route of the North British, 12j
miles SSE of Edinburgh.
Fyne, a mountain rivulet and a large sea-loch in ArgyU-
shire. The rivulet, rising on the south-western skirts
of Benloy, a little NW of the meeting-point with
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