Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 5

LOGIE
scliool, \vith accommodation for 72 children, had (1882)
an average attendance of 55, and a grant of £63, 18s.
Valuation (1860) £4724, 10s. 5d., (1884) £6386, 7s.
Pop. (1801) 339, (1831) 430, (1861) 410, (1871) 402,
(1881) S90.— Orel. Sur., shs. 48, 49, 1868-65.
Logie, a parish of Stirling, Clackmannan, and Perth
shires, containing most of the post-town of Bridge of
Allan, part of the royal burgh of Stirling, the villages
of Catjsewayhead and Menstrie, and the hamlets of
Blairlogie and Craigmill. The Stirlingshire portion
is in two sections, detached from each other, and the
smaller detached from all the rest of the county ; the
larger Clackmannanshire section is likewise detached
from the rest of Clackmannanshire by the intervention
of the Perthshire portion ; yet all five sections lie
mutually contiguous, and form a compact whole. The
entire parish is bounded NW and N by Dunblane, E
by Alva and Alloa, S by St Ninians and Stirling,^ and
W by Lecropt. Its utmost length, from N to S, is 6J
miles ; its utmost breadth, from E to W, is 5-J miles ; and
its area is 12,079 acres, of which 53 are foreshore and
212J- water, whilst 3095 belong to Stirlingshire, 598 to
Perthshire, and 3811 to Clackmannanshire. Allan
Water flows to the Forth 2J miles southward along or
close to all the Lecropt boundary ; the Forth, in the
serpentine winding of the 'Links of Forth,' meanders
llj miles east-south-eastward along all the southern
boundary, though the point where it iirst touches and
that where it quits the parish are but 4| miles distant
as the crow flies ; the Devon winds 2| miles west-south-
westward along the upper part of the Alloa boundary ;
and Wharry Burn runs 5J miles westward and south-
westward along most of the Dunblane boundary on its
way to the Allan. The surface all S of Blairlogie and
Bridge of Allan is low, flat carseland, only 15 to 40 feet
above sea-level ; but northward it rises to 362 feet at
isolated Abbey Craig, 1375 at abrupt Dunmyat, 896
at Pendriechmuir, 1240 at Myreton Hill, and 1832 at
Colsnaur Hill. The southern district, thus, all onward
from the Forth, to the extent of nearly one-third of
the entire area is strong and beautiful carse land, unsur-
passed in opulence by any land in the kingdom ; the
eastern district is part of the beautiful vale of Strath-
allan, with flanking braes rising eastward ; and all the
rest is part of the grand masses, romantic intersections,
and lofty shoulders and summits of the Ochil Hills.
The entire landscape, both in itself and in views com-
manded from it, is exquisitely picturesque ; and the south-
ern front of the Oehils in particular, in one continuous
chain from E to W, with soaring precipitous acclivity,
parti}' clothed in verdure, partly rugged precipice and
naked rock, both offer magnificent features in its own
vast facade, and commands most gorgeous and extensive
prospects from each of its many vantage grounds. Dun-
myat, standing out boldly in the middle of that grand
front, and Abbey Craig, rising isolatedly in advance of
it, and crowned with the conspicuous Wallace Monu-
ment, are specially prominent, both for their own pictur-
esqueness and for the views which they command. The
rocks of the plain are carboniferous ; those of the hills
are eruptive. Coal does not seem to exist in any work-
able thickness ; limestone of coarse quality occurs in
thin beds, as also does shale or slate clay, containing
balls of claj' ironstone ; whilst sandstone of various
shades of white and red is plentiful. Greenstone and
amygdaloid are the most common of the eruptive rocks ;
and they contain iron ores, agates, rock crystals, calc
spar, heavy spar, and other minerals. A mine of copper
ore was for some time mined near Westerton, and seemed
to have the promise of a very rich vein ; but it failed to
repay the cost of working, and was abandoned in 1807.
The famous mineral springs of Airthrey have been sepa-
rately noticed. The soil of the carse lands is rich argilla-
ceous alluvium ; of the hill slopes is mostly good loam ;
and of the uplands is either sandy or moorish. About
two-fifths of the entire area are arable ; one-tenth is
under wood ; and one-half is either pastoral or waste.
The Battle of Stirling (11 Sept. 1297), in which Wallace
defeated the English under Surrey and Cressiugham, was
LOGIE-EUCHAN
fought to the W of the Abbey Craig. Antiquities are
a Roman causeway across the Forth at Manor, faint
traces of a Pictish fort on Castle Law, sites of a pre-
Reformation chapel and hermitage, and the grand old
tower of Cambuskenneth Abbey. Sir Ralph Aber-
cromby, K.B. (1734-1801), the hero of Aboukir Bay,
was born at Menstrie. Airthrey Castle is the principal
mansion ; and 9 proprietors hold each an annual value
of £600 and upwards, 28 of between £100 and £500.
Giving off Bridge of Allan quoad sacra parish, Logie is
in the presbytery of Dunblane and the synod of ]?erth
and Stirling ; the living is worth £418. The parish
church, 2 miles ESE of Bridge of Allan, is a plain edifice
of 1806, containing 644 sittings. Its predecessor, a little
way NNW, is a beautiful ivy-clad ruin, with a number
of very old tombstones. Three public schools — Bridge
of Allan, Causewayend, and Menstrie — with respective
accommodation for 200, 120, and 250 children, had (1882)
an average attendance of 160, 69, and 149, and grants
of £132, 15s., £59, 9s., and £121, 12s. Valuation (1860)
£21,409, (1884) £37,229, 2s. lid., of which £24,192,
12s. 6d. was for Stirlingshire, £9481, 12s. 8d. for Clack-
mannanshire, and £3554, 17s. 9d. for Perthshire. Pop.
(1801) 2166, (1831) 1945, (1861) 3483, (1871) 4553,
(1881) 4696, of whom 2986 were in Stirlingshire, 1438
in Clackmannanshire, and 273 in Perthshire, whilst 2234
were in the ecclesiastical parish. — Orel. Sur. , sh. 39, 1869.
Logie, a mansion in Kirriemuir parish, Forfarshire,
1| mile SSE of the town. Its owner. Col. John Grant-
Kinloch (b. 1807 ; sue. 1824), holds 2059 acres in the
shire, valued at £2732 per annum. — Ord. Sur., sh. 56,
1870.
Logiealmond, a district in Monzie parish, central
Perthshire, and a qiwael sacree parish, partly also in
Fowlis-Wester, Methven, and Redgorton. The district
lies on the N bank of the river Almond, 6 miles NW of
Methven station ; and in 1702 was annexed quoeiel sacra to
Moneydie. It contains the meeting-point of the three
ancient dioceses of Dunblane, Dunkeld, and St Andrews,
and according to tradition was a place of conference
for the bishops of those three sees. (See Monzie.)
The quoad sacra parish, constituted about 1852, is in
the presbytery of Perth and the -synod of Perth and
Stirling ; its minister's stipend is £120. An ancient
church at Chapelhill, which had been in a ruinous state
for upwards of a century, was refitted for public worship
in 1834, and contains 285 sittings. There are also a
Free church and a U.P. church (1811 ; 460 sittings);
and a public school, with accommodation for 73 chil-
dren, had (1882) an average attendance of 66, and a
grant of £55, 13s. Pop. (1871) 646, (1881) 581, of whom
117 were in Fowlis-Wester, 62 in Methven, 372 in Monzie,
and 30 in Redgorton. —Ord. Sur., sh. 47, 1869.
Logiebride. See Auchtergaven.
Logie-Buchan, a parish of E Aberdeenshire, whose
church stands on the right bank of the Ythan, 2 miles
E by S of the station and post-town, Ellon. The parish
is bounded N by Cruden, E by Slains, S by Foveran,
SW by Udny, and W by Ellon. Its utmost length,
from N to S, is 5| miles; its breadth varies between
7J furlongs and 4| miles ; and its area is 69753*^
acres, of which 19SJ are foreshore, 3| water, and 90|
tidal water. The river Ythan, here navigable at full
tide for small sloops, winds 3| miles south-eastward
across the interior and along the Ellon and Slains
boundaries, dividing the parish into two pretty equal
halves ; and its little affluents, the burns of Auchmacoy,
Forvie, and Tarty, trace part of the western and all
the eastern and southern boundaries. Precipices of
gneiss rock flank the river on the western border, and
in a calm evening give a very distinct echo to short sen-
tences. The surface is comparatively flat, attaining a
maximum altitude of 184 feet above sea-level to the S,
and of 234 to the N", of the Ythan. The predominant
rock is gneiss ; and the soil is generally loam of various
quality, incumbent upon clay. Nearly nine-tenths of
the entire area are in tillage, some 70 acres are under
wood, and the rest of the land is either pastoral or waste.
In 1597 the lands of Logie, Rieve, Allatham, and Boni-
547