Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 4

KINBEOON
Kinbroon, a modern mansion in Fyvie parish, Aber-
deenshire, 5 furlongs SSW of Rothie-Nornian station.
Kinbuck. See Dunblane.
Kincaid House, a mansion in Campsie parish, Stirling-
shire, | mile SSW of Milton.
Eincairney, an estate, with a mansion and a village,
in Caputh parish, Perthshire. The mansion, 5 miles
ENE of Dunkeld, is the seat of William Ellis Gloag,
Esq. (h. 1828), who holds 529 acres in the shire, valued
at £706 per annum ; and the village stands 1 mile
nearer Dunkeld. — Orel. Sur., sh. 56, 1870.
Kincaldrum, a mansion in Inverarity parish, Forfar-
shire, on the NE slope of wooded Kincaldrum Hill, 5
miles SSW of Forfar. It is the seat of the Eight Hon.
William-Edward Baxter (b. 1825 ; sue. 1871), Liberal
M.P. for the Montrose Burghs since 1855, who holds
581 acres in Forfarshire and 1201 in Fife, valued at
£880 and £3287 per annum. —Ord. Sur., sh. 57, 1868.
See Kilmaeon Castle.
Kincaple, an estate, with a mansion and a village, in
St Andrews parish, Fife, 3 miles WNW of the city.
Kincardine, a large parish of N Ross and Cromarty,
containing to the E the village of Aedgay, with a post
and telegraph office, and with Bonar- Bridge station on
the Highland railway, 13f miles WNW of Tain, and
39J N by E of Dingwall. It is bounded NE by Creich
in Sutherland and by the head of Dornoch Firth, E by
Edderton, SbyRosskeen, Alness, Fodderty, andContin,
and SW and W by Lochbroom. Its utmost length, from
E to W, is 22J miles ; its width, contracting to a
point at the extremities, elsewhere varies between 3J
and 21J miles ; and its area is 239 square miles, or
153,054 acres. The Oikell, rising at the NW corner
and at an altitude of 1500 feet, winds 35J miles south-
eastward and east-south-eastward along all the Suther-
land boundary, through Loch Ailsh (7 x 4J furl. ; 498
feet) and the Kyle of Sutherland to the head of Dor-
noch Firth at Bonar-Bridge. Of its twenty tributaries
from Kincardine parish, the chief is the Einig, formed
by two head-streams, and running 4 miles east-north-
eastward to a point \ mile below Oikell Bridge ; whilst
the Carron, formed by three head-streams, runs 9
miles east-by-northward to the Kyle at a point \ mile
above Bonar-Bridge. Of thirty-three lakes, besides
Loch Ailsh, the largest are Crom Loch (6 x 3 J furl. ;
1720 feet) on the Fodderty border, and Loch Craggie
(5J x \\ furl. ; 507 feet) in the NW interior. The sur-
face is everywhere hilly or mountainous, chief elevations
westward and north-westward being Blar Carvary (864
feet), *Cnoc Leathadona Siorramachd (1845), Lamenta-
tion Hill (600), Carn Bhren (2080), Breac Bheinn (1516),
*Carn Chuinneag (2749), Beinn Ulamhie (1616), Bodach
Mor (26S9), Carn Loch Sruban Mora (2406), and * Brea-
bag (2338), where asterisks mark those summits that
culminate on the southern and western confines of
the parish. Granite and sandstone are the predomi-
nant rocks ; and precious stones are found upon Carn
Chuinneag, exactly similar to those of the Cairngorm
Mountains. On the Invercharron estate there is a small
tract of very fine arable land, with rich alluvial soil ;
and in 1847, after the potato disease, the greater part of
Upper Gledfield farm, extending to 180 acres, was brought
under cultivation, in pursuance of the reclamation scheme
of Sir Alex. Matheson of Ardross ( Trans. Sighl. and Ag.
Soc, 1877, pp. 153, 154). Agriculture, however, is prac-
ticable over only a small proportion of the land area ; and
sheep-farming constitutes the staple occupation. There
is a pier at the Bridge of Bonar, where ships are moored
and discharge their cargoes. A sanguinary contest,
called the battle of Tuiteam-Tarbhach, was fought in
this parish, about 1397, between the Macleods and the
Mackays ; and near Culrain station, 4 miles NW of
Ardgay, Montrose, with 1200 Cavaliers, Germans, and
undrilled Orcadians, was routed by 230 horse and 170
foot under Lieut. -Colonel Strachan, 27 April 1650. The
battle-field bears the name of Craigcaoineadhan or
Lamentation Hill, but the conflict itself is commonly
known as the battle of Invercharron. More than 600
of his men made prisoners, and 396 slain, the great
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KINCARDINE
Marquis disguised himself as a common Highlander, and,
swimming across the Kyle, fled up Strath Oikell to
Assynt, where three days later he was taken captive.
Antiquities are remains of several dunes, cairns, and
stone circles, and a sculptured stone in the churchyard.
The principal residences, with their distance from Ard-
gay, are Invercharron House (2 miles N by W), Gled-
field House (1J W), Culrain Lodge (3J NNW), Brae-
langwell Lodge (6 W by N), Amat Lodge (9 W), Alla-
dale Lodge (13 W by S), Achnahannet Lodge (9J NW),
and Inveroikell Lodge (10f NW). Sir Charles Ross of
Balnagowan holds nearly half of the entire rental, 2
other proprietors hold each an annual value of between
£1200 and £1870, 3 of between £600 and £800, and 8
of between £100 and £350. Giving off the quoad sacra
parish of Ceoiok, Kincardine is in the presbytery of Tain
and synod of Ross ; the living is worth £324. The
parish church, near the shore of Dornoch Firth, 7 fur-
longs SSE of Bonar-Bridge station, was built in 1799,
and contains 600 sittings. There are Free churches of
Kincardine and Croick ; and 4 new public schools —
Achnahannet, Croick, Culrain, and Gledfield — with
respective accommodation for 40, 35, 50, and 110 chil-
dren, had (1881) an average attendance of 25, 17, 27,
and 67, and grants of £53, 6s. 6d., £31, 0s. 6d., £36,
lis. 6d., and £66, 3s. 6d. Valuation (1S60) £6860,
(1S82) £13,754, plus £848 for railway. Pop. (1801)
1865, (1841) 2108, (1861) 1746, (1871) 1685, (1S81)
1472, of whom 1116 were Gaelic-speaking, and 1256
belonged to Kincardine ecclesiastical parish. — Ord.
Sxir., shs. 102, 93, 92, 101, 1881-82.
Kincardine, a parish in Menteith district, S Perth-
shire, containing the villages of Blair-Detjmmond and
Thoenhill, each with a post office under Stirling, and
extending southward to Gargunnock station, northward
to within 7 furlongs of Doune station. It comprises a
main body and the Thornhill or detached section,
separated from each other by a strip of Kilmadock
parish, 2 miles broad, and both washed by the Forth
on the S, on the N by the Teith. The main body,
triangular in outline, is bounded NE by Kilmadock and
Lecropt, E by St Ninians in Stirlingshire, S by St
Ninians and Gargunnock, and W by Kilmadock ; and
has an utmost length from E to W of 4£ miles, with an
utmost breadth from N to S of 3f miles. The detached
portion, measuring 5J miles from N to S, by from 5J
furlongs to 1 J mile, is bounded N and E by Kilmadock,
S by Kippen in Stirlingshire, and W by Port of Menteith.
The area of the entire parish is 10,659g acres, of which
3606J belong to the detached district, and 155J are
water. The Forth meanders in serpentine folds 7 fur-
longs eastward along the S border of the detached
portion, and, lower down, llf miles along all the
Gargunnock and St Ninians boundary of the main
body ; its affluent, the arrowy Teith, hurries 9 furlongs
along the N border of the Thornhill section, and 4£
miles south-eastward along all the north-eastern boun-
dary of the main body ; whilst Goodie Water, another
tributary of the Forth, flows 1 J mile east-south-eastward
across the detached portion. In the extreme E, at the
confluence of the Forth and the Teith, the surface
declines to 34 feet above sea-level, and the greater part
of the main body is low and almost flat, only in the
NW, near Loch Watston, attaining an altitude of 205
feet. The northern half of the Thornhill section is
somewhat hillier, and rises to 400 feet near the Muir
Damon, a ridge which, lying in the widest part of the
strath of Menteith, is the centre of a magnificent land-
scape, screened in the distance by Ben Lomond, Ben
Ledi, Ben Vorlich, Stuc a Chroin, the Ochils, and the
Lennox Hills. The predominant rocks are Devonian,
and sandstone has been quarried. The soil of the carse
is a rich blue clay, incumbent on a bed of gravel ; that
of the dryfield is a light loam, formerly encumbered
with boulders, but now entirely cleared. The carse
has, at various depths, many thin beds of shells, parti-
cularly oysters ; and nearly half of it till 1766 was
covered with a dee)) bog, called Blair- Drummond or
Kincardine Moss, but by the ingenious removal of the