Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 3

GLENMORE WATER
GLENNOE
picturesque display of Highland scenery ; and is noticed
in detail in our articles on its various parts and ob-
jects.— Or(^. Swr., shs. 84, 83, 73, 63, 62, 1873-81.
Glemnore Water, a stream of Auchinleck parish, E
Ayrshire, rising at an altitude of 1600 feet near the
meeting-point with Lanark and Dumfries shires, and
running first 5J miles west-south-westward across the
bleak uplands of the Glenmuirshaw or the eastern in-
terior, then 4| miles west-north-westward along the Old
Cumnock border, till, just above Lugar Iron-works, it
unites with Gass Water to form the Lug.a.r. — Ord. Sur.,
shs. 15, 14, 1864-63.
Glen Moriston (Gael, gleann-mor-easan, ' valley of the
great cascades '), a beautiful glen in Urquhart and Glen-
moriston parish, NW Inverness-shire, traversed by the
impetuous river Moriston, iiowing 19J miles east-north-
eastward from Loch Cltjnie (606 feet above sea-level)
to Loch Ness (50 feet) at Inveemoeiston, 7 miles NNE
of Fort Augustus. Near Invermoriston House and
Hotel is Glenmoriston post office, with money order,
savings' bank, and telegraph departments ; and near
Torgyle Bridge and lun, 9 miles higher up, are an
Established mission church, a Free church, and a Roman
Catholic church (1841 ; 100 sittings), all three designated
of Glenmoriston. From Torgyle downwards the glen is
finely wooded with birch and fir ; and it takes up a road
to Glenshiel, Glenelg, and Skye. The ancient parish of
Glenmoriston, atone time annexed to Abertarf, has been
united to Urquhart since the Reformation era. Pop. of
registration district (1871) 565, (1881) 425. — Ord. Sur.,
shs. 72, 73, 1880-78.
Glenmuick, Tullich, and Glengairn, a Deeside parish
of SW Aberdeenshire, containing the post oflfice village
and railway terminus of Ballater, 43^ miles WSW of
Aberdeen, and 4 and 65 miles WSW of Cambus 0' May
and Dinnet stations, both of which also are within its
bounds. Comprising the ancient parishes of Glengairn
to the NW, Tullich to the NE, and Glenmuick to the
S, the two first on the left and the last on the right
side of the Dee, it is bounded N by Strathdon and
Logie-Coldstone, NE by Logie-Coldstone, E by Aboyne-
Glentanner, SE by Lochlee and SW by Clova in For-
farshire, and W by Crathie-Braemar. Its utmost length,
from N to S, is 17i miles ; its width, from E to W,
varies between 4J and 12J miles; and its area is 88,798J
acres, of which 1437i^ are water. From a point f mile
E of Crathie church to the Mill of Dinnet, the Dee
winds 15g miles east-north-eastward — first 4f miles
along the Crathie border, next 8J miles through the
interior, and lastly 2J miles along the Aboyne border —
during which course it descends from 850 to 505 feet
above sea-level. A stream that rises on Cairn Taggart,
in the SE extremity of the parish, at 3150 feet, thence
dashes IJ mile east-south-eastward to wild and pic-
turesque Dhu Loch (5J X 1 J furl. ; 2091 feet), thence
hurries 2 miles east-by-southward to dark Loch Muick
(2J miles x^ mile ; 1310 feet), and thence, as the river
Muick, runs 9| miles north-north-eastward along Glen
Muick proper, till, 4 mile above Ballater bridge and at
665 feet of altitude, it falls into the Dee. Through the
north-western or Glengairn portion of the united parish,
the Gairn, entering from Crathie, winds 9 miles east-
south-eastward to the Dee, at a point If mile NW of
Ballater ; whilst the Water of Tanner, rising close to
the Forfarshire border, at 2050 feet, runs 7 miles north-
eastward through Glenmuick, and passes ofi' into the
Glentanner division of Aboyne. In the Tullich portion
are Lochs Cannoe (1 mile x 5 furl. ; 570 feet) and
Daven (6 X 4f furl. ; 480 feet), the former belonging
wholly to this parish, the latter partly to Logie-Cold-
stone. Save for the broadening valley of the Dee and
the wide dreary Muir of Dinnet in the NE, the surface
almost everywhere is mountainous. Chief elevations,
■westward, N of the Dee are Culblean Hill (1750 feet),
Crannach Hill (1824), *Morven Hill (2862), wooded
Craigandarroch (1250), Geallaig Hill (2439), and *Carn
a' Bhacain (2442), where asterisks mark those summits
that culminate on the confines of the parish. E of
the Tanner rise Clocli an Yell (2053) and *Mount Keen
192
(3077) ; between the Tanner and the Muick, Black |
Craig (1742), Pananich Hill (1896), Cairn Leughan ^
(2233), *Fasheilach (2362), Black Hill (2470), *Lair of
Aldararie (2726), *Broad Cairn (3268), *Cairn Bannoch
(3314), and *Cairn Taggart (3430) ; and W or left of
the Muick, Creag Phiobaidh (1462), the Coyle (1956),
*Conacheraig Hill (2827), and the *lower summit (3768)
of LocHNAGAE. The rocks include granite, gneiss,
trap, and primary limestone ; lead-mining operations
were carried on at Abergairn in 1874 ; and other
minerals are fluor-spar, amianthus, asbestos, sei-pentine,
etc. The soil along the Dee and in the lower glens is
mostly boulder gravel or sandy loam. Barely a thirtieth
of the entire area is in tillage ; as much or more —
chiefly along the Dee and the Muick — is clad with
woods and plantations of Scotch fir, larch, birch, oak,
aspen, etc. ; and the rest is all either sheep-walk or deer-
forest, moss or heathy moorland. All the chief spots
of interest, of which there are many, have articles to
themselves, as ALT-NA-GitrTHASAOH, Ballateich,
Bracklet and Knock Castles, Pananich, and the
Vat. Glenmuick House, on the Muick's right bank,
2 miles SSW of Ballater, was built in 1872 from designs
by Sir Morton Peto, and is a striking Tudor edifice of
native pink-coloured granite, with a massive square
tower 75 feet high. Its o^vner, James Thomson Mac-
kenzie, Esq. of Kintail (b. 1824), holds 25,000 acres
in the shu-e, valued at £1116 per annum. Cambus o'
May House, near the station of that name, is a pretty
gabled and verandahed mansion of 1874 ; and other
residences, noticed separately, are Birkhall and
Monalteie. The chief proprietors are the Queen, the
Prince of Wales, the Marquis of Huntly, Mr Farquhar-
son of Monaltrie, and Mr Macl^euzie. Giving off por-
tions to the quoad sacra parishes of Glengairn and
Dinnet, Glenmuick is in the presbytery of Kincardine
O'Neil and synod of Aberdeen ; the living is worth
£297. The churches are noticed under Ballater,
Glengairn, and Dinnet. Five public schools — Bal-
later, Birkhall female, Inchmarnock, Kinord female,
and Glengairn, the last under a separate school board — ■
with respective accommodation for 260, 43, 40, 53, and
60 children, had (1881) an average attendance of 180,
19, 26, 46, and 20, and grants of £162, £28, 5s., £41,
8s,, £47, 17s., and £31, 10s. Valuation (1843) £5745,
(1881) £12,813, 16s. Pop. of civil parish (1801) 1901,
(1831) 2279, (1861) 1668, (1871) 2160, (1881) 2109 ; of
ecclesiastical parish (1871) 1602, (1881) 1672 ; of regis-
tration district (1871) 1995, (1881) 1946.— OrtZ. Sur., shs.
65, 66, 75, 76, 1870-76.
Glenmuir or Glenmuirshaw, a wild moorish vale on
the eastern border of Auchinleck parish, Ayrshire, at the
head of Glenmore Water, near the meeting-point with
Lanark and Dumfries shires, and immediately S of Cairn-
table. It contains ruins of an ancient baronial fortalice ;
and it was the scene, at Dalblair, of the boyhood of the
author of the Cameronian' s Dream, beginning, —
' In Glenmuir's \\ild solitudes, lengthened and deep
Were the whistling of plovers and bleating of sheep.'
Glennevis, a Lochaber glen in Eilmallie parish, SW
Inverness-shire, ti-aversed by the Water of Nevis, a clear
and rapid trout stream, which, rising at an altitude of
2750 feet, sweeps llf miles south-westward, westward,
north-north-westward, and westward, till at Fort-
William it falls into Loch Eil. A carriage drive, opened
in 1880, leads 7 miles up the glen, objects of interest in
which are a vitrified fort, a rocking-stone, Samuel's
Cave (a hiding-place of fugitives from CuUoden), and
the Ben Nevis waterfall, by some deemed finer than the
Falls of Foyers. ' High masses of rock towering to the
very clouds, and covered here and there with moss, line
both sides of the glen ; while streams innumerable come
rushing down the hillside to increase the volume of the
crystal Nevis. ' — Ord. Sur., sh. 53, 1877.
Glennoe, a glen in Ardchattan parish, Argyllshire,
traversed by the Noe, which, formed by head streams
that rise on the northern skirts of Ben Cruachan, runs
2| miles west-north-westward, till it falls into Loch