Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 4

KINTESSACK
head of Loch Duich flows the Ckoe, over its last 1\ mile
dividing Kintail from Glenshiel. The drainage, how-
ever, is partly carried towards the Moray Firth by the
Cannioh, flowing 2 miles east-by-northward from Loch
Glasletter or Lungard (1J mile x 2§ furl. ; 761 feet)
to Loch Mullardooh (4£ miles x 1 J to 4 furl. ; 705 feet),
whose upper waters belong to Kintail, and lower to
Kilmorack. The surface everywhere is grandly moun-
tainous, chief elevations from \V to E being Sgurr an
Airgid (2757 feet), Glasveix (3006), *Sgurr nan Ceath-
reamhnan (3771), *Mam Sodhail or Carn Eige (3S77), and
*Sgurr na Lapaich (3773), where asterisks mark those
summits that culminate on the confines of the parish.
' From whatever quarter Kintail is entered, whether by
sea from the AV or by land from the E, a scene gradually
unfolds itself which it is impossible to describe. Moun-
tains of immense magnitude, grouped together in the
sublimest manner, with wood and water, scars and bens
intermingled, present a prospect seldom surpassed in
wild beauty, and equally interesting and astonishing in
the storms of winter and in the calm serenity of summer. '
Gneiss is the predominant rock, but granite and syenite
also occur. Sheep-farming constitutes the staple in-
dustry, there being some very fine grazing lands along
Loch Duich, principally green, but steep and rocky.
Sir Alex. Matheson, Bart., holds rather more than two-
thirds, and the Chisholm somewhat less than one-fourth,
of the entire rental. The lord, however, of the Barony
of Kintail is James Mackenzie, Esq. of Glenmuick,
who purchased it from the Mackenzies of Seaforth in
1869, and who holds 25,500 acres in Ross-shire, valued
at £19S3 per annum. Kintail is in the presbytery of
Lochcarron and synod of Glenelg ; the living is worth
£210, exclusive of manse and glebe.. The old parish
church, at the village, having been declared unsafe in
1S55, a new one was built containing 450 sittings. At
Dornie is a Roman Catholic church, St Duthac's (1S61 ;
170 sittings), erected by the late Duchess of Leeds.
Dornie public, Inverinate public, Killilan public, and
Dornie Roman Catholic schools, with respective accom-
modation for 50, 49, 60, and 88 children, had (1881) an
average attendance of 31, 20, 26, and 23. and grants of
£26, £27, 14s., £39, 17s., and £1S, 12s. Valuation
(1S60) £4190, (18S2) £6143. Pop. (1S01) 1038, (1831)
1240, (1861) 890, (1871) 753, (1881) 6SS, of whom 652
were Gaelic-speaking. — Ord. Sur., shs. 72, 82, 1880-82.
Kintessack, a village with a public school, in Dyke
and Moy parish Elginshire, 4 miles ffSW of Forres,
under which it has a post office.
Kintillo. See Kintulloch.
Kintore, a small town and a parish of central Aber-
deenshire. The town, standing 165 feet above sea-level,
near the right bank of
the Don, has a station
on the Great North of
Scotland railway, 16
miles E of Alford, 3 SSE
of Inverurie, and 13J
Iff of Aberdeen. It
ranks as a royal burgh
under charter of William
the c Lyon, but in size
is no more than a
mere village, consisting
chiefly of one well-built
street, with several very
good shops. At it are
a post office, with money
order, savings' bank,
and railway telegraph
departments, a branch
of the North of Scot-
land bank, a National
Security savings' bank
(1S37), 4 insurance
agencies, 2 hotels, a
plain town hall (1740), a parish church (1819; 700
sittings), a Free church, and a horticultural society.
The town has given the title of Earl in the peerage of
Seal of Kintore.
KINTYRE
Scotland since 1677, and of Baron in the peerage of the
United Kingdom since 1838, to the family of Keith-
Falconer, whose seats are Keithiiall in Aberdeenshire
and Inglismaldie in Kincardineshire. The burgh is
governed by a provost, 2 bailies, a clean of guild, a
treasurer, and 9 councillors ; and it unites with Elgin,
Inverurie, Peterhead, Banff, and Cullen in sending a
member to parliament. The parliamentary constituency
numbered 89 in 18S3, when the annual value of real
property amounted to £2612. Pop. (1821) 312, (1841)
462, (1861) 56S, (1871) 659, (1881) 661. Houses (1881)
113 inhabited, 3 vacant.
The parish, containing also the Port Elphinstone
suburb of Inverurie burgh, comprises the ancient parish
of Kintore and part of that of Kinkell. It is bounded
N by Inverurie, E by Keithhall and Fintray, SE by
Kiunellar, S by Skene, and W by Kemnay. Its utmost
length, from N to S, is 5§ miles ; its breadth, from E
to W, varies between 1§ and 4 J miles ; and its area is
9187 acres, of which 93J are water. The Don winds
6f miles along all the northern and the eastern border,
and is fed from the interior by three or four small burns.
The land adjacent to the river is low and flat, sinking
in the SE to 148 feet above sea-level, and protected
from inundation by embankments. The surface rises
thence westward and south-westward, with frequent
inequalities ; and the highest ground is Crichie or
Thainston Hill (500 feet), beautifully covered with
wood. Granite is the predominant rock, and has been
quarried. The soil along the Don is a deep, rich,
alluvial loam ; on many higher grounds, is a thin,
light, shallow, sandy mould ; and over some consider-
able tracts, is either moss in natural condition or moss
subjected to cultivation. Fully three-eighths of the
entire area are in tillage, woods cover rather more than
one-fifth, and the rest is either pastoral or waste. Hall-
forest Castle has been noticed separately. Other anti-
quities are remains of two stone circles ; five sculptured
stones, figured in Dr John Stuart's Sculptured Stones of
Scotland (Spalding Club, 1S67) ; and the 'Deer Dykes,'
an enclosure to the NW of the town, supposed by some
to have been a Roman camp. Sir Andrew Mitchell,
ambassador to the court of Prussia in the time of
Frederick the Great, resided at Thainston House ; and
Arthur Johnston, the celebrated writer of Latin poetry,
attended the parish school. Thainston is the only
mansion ; and its owner divides with the Earl of Kintore
the greater part of the parish, 2 lesser proprietors hold-
ing each an annual value of between £100 and £500,
4 of from £50 to £100, and 26 of from £20 to £50.
Kintore is in the presbytery of Garioch and synod of
Aberdeen ; the living is worth £294. Kintore public,
Port Elphinstone public, and Leylodge Church of Scot-
land schools, with respective accommodation for 250,
153, and 86 children, had (1881) an average attendance
of 198, 117, and 50, and grants of £185, 14s., £107,
15s. 2d., and £51, 14s. Valuation (1860) £5409, (1882)
£7524, 8s. 4d., plus £1295 for railway. Pop. (1S01)
846, (1831) 11S4, (1861) 1S95, (1871) 2158, (1881) 2327.
— Ord. Sur., sh. 76, 1874. See Alexander Watt's
Early History of Kintore (1864).
Kintra, a village in Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon
parish, Mull Island, Argyllshire, at the extremity of the
Ross of Mull, 6J miles WNW of Bunessan.
Kintulloch, a village in Dunbarny parish, SE Perth-
shire, i mile S by W of Bridge of Earn. Pop. (1861)
119, (1881) 96.
Kintyre, the southernmost district of Argyllshire,
consisting chiefly of a peninsula, but including the
islands of Gigha, Cara, and Sanda, with several islets.
The peninsula is prevented only by the narrow isthmus
of Tarbert from being an island. From Knapdale it is
separated by that isthmus and by East Loch Tarbert
and West Loch Tarbert ; it flanks the W side of Loch
Fyne downward from East Loch Tarbert, and the W
side of the Firth of Clyde all downward from the
mouth of Loch Fyne ; and it terminates, at the southern
extremity, in a bold broad promontory called the Mull
of Kintyre. It probably took its name (Gael, ccann-tir,
ill