Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 5

LOUISBUEGH
second son of Sir Colin Campbell of Locliow (see Invek-
ARAy), and who married Susanna Crauford, the heiress
of Loudoun, in the reign of Robert I. In 1601 Sir
Hugh Campbell of Loudoun, Sheriff of Ayr, was raised
to the peerage as Baron Loudoun ; and in 1633 his
granddaughter's husband. Sir John Campbell of Lawers,
was created Earl of Loudoun. A zealous Covenanter,
he became High Chancellor of Scotland in 1641, and
played a conspicuous part in the stirring events of the
times. His great-great-granddaughter, Flora Mure
Campbell (1780-1840), married the first Marquess of
Hastings, a title wliich became extinct at the death of
their younger grandson in 1868, when that however of
Countess of Loudoun devolved on their granddaughter,
Edith-Maud (1833-74), who married the first Lord
Donington. Her eldest son, Charles-Edward Mure-
Eawdon-Abney-Hastings, the present Earl (b. 1855),
holds 18,638 acres in the shire, valued at £17,543 per
annum. (See Fenwick and Kilmarnock.) 'Loudoun's
bonny woods and braes ' are the theme of one of Tanna-
hill's best-known songs. The Earl of Loudoun is much
the largest proprietor, 1 other holding an annual value of
more than £500, 10 each of between £100 and £500, 16
of from £50 to £100, and 57 of from £20 to £50.
Loudoun is in the presbytery of Irvine and the synod of
Glasgow and Ayr ; the living is worth £368. The
ancient church, at tlie SW corner of the parish, was
dependeut upon Kilwinning Abbey, and now is repre-
sented only by its choir, which serves as a mausoleum of
the Loudoun family. Norman Macleod, D.D. (1812-72),
was minister from 1838 till 1843, and the account of the
parish in the New Statistical was written by him.
Modern places of worship are noticed under Newmilns
and Darvel ; and 3 schools — Daivel public, Newmilns
public, and Lady Flora's — with respective accommoda-
tion for 250, 300, and 280 children, had (1882) an
average attendance of 151, 309, and 125, and grants of
£138, 7s. 6d., £253, 19s., and £109. 17s. Valuation
(1860) £15,499, (1884) £25,052, 10s. Pop. (1801)
2503, (1831) 3959, (1861) 4S40, (1S71) 5525, (1881)
5289.— Orrf. Sur., sh, 22, 1865.
Louisburgh. See Wick.
Loup of Fintry. See Fintrt.
Lour, a mansion in Forfar parish, Forfarshire, 4 miles
SSE of the town. It was built by one of the Earls of
Northesk, whose descendant, Captain Patrick Alexander
Watson Carnegy of Lour and Turin (b. 1836 ; sue. 1838),
holds 4206 acres in the shire, valued at £5025 per annum.
A lake was once on the estate, but has been completely
drained ; and a moor on it, within Inverarity parish, has
remains of a Roman camp. — Ord. Sur., sh. 57, 1868.
Louther. See Lowther.
Lovat, a place in Kirkhill parish, Inverness-shire, on
the right bank of the river Beauly, opposite Beauly
town, and IJ mile W by S of Clunes station. Here
stood the baronial fortalice of Lovat, founded in 1230 by
the Bissets, and conferred by James I. on Hugh Eraser,
first Lord Lovat — a title attainted in 1747 and restored
in 1857. (See Beatjfort Castle.) Lovat Bridge, across
the river Beauly, IJ mile WSW, was erected in 1810 at
a cost of nearly £10,000, and is a fine arched structure,
with a waterway of 240 feet— Orrf. Silt., sh. 83, 1881.
Low Banton. See Banton.
Lowes, Loch of the, a lake in the extreme NW of
Ettrick parish, Selkirkshire. Lying 815 feet above sea-
level, it measures 6 j furlongs in length from S by W to
N by E, If furlong in extreme breadth, and 11 or 12
fathoms in depth. At the foot it is separated by only a
narrow neck of land from the head of St Mary's Loch,
into which it discharges, through an aggregate descent
of only 15 inches, the nascent drain-like stream of Yar-
row Water ; and it seems to have been originally one lake
with St Mary's Loch, tiU gradually separated from it by
deposits at the mouths of Oxcleugh and Crosscleugh
Bm-ns. In consequence, probably, of its becoming a
separate lake, but certainly not on account of any pre-
eminence in either extent or picturesqueness, it is popu-
larly called the Loch of the Lowes, signifying ' the lake
ofthe lakes. '—Orrf. Sur., sh. 16, 1864.
LUBNAIG, LOCH
Lows, Loch of the, a lake in Caputh parish, Perthshire,
1\ mile NE of Dunkeld. The largest of a chain of five
lakes, expansions of Lunan Burn, it measures 1 by J
mile ; presents exquisite features of contour and embel-
lishment ; and contains pike, perch, and fine but very
shy trout. The Queen drove round by here both in
1865 and 1866, and describes the loch as ' surrounded by
trees and woods, of which there is no end, and very
pretty.'— OrA Sur., shs. 48, 56, 1868-70.
Lowther, Green, a mountain (2403 feet) in Crawford
parish, Lanarkshire, IJ mile ESE of Wanlockhead and
8i miles ENE of Sanquhar. Lowther Hill (2377 feet)
rises 1 mile to the SW, at the meeting point with the
Dumfriesshire parishes of Sanquhar and Durisdeer ; and
these two summits, occupying a chief place among the
central masses of the Southern Highlands, give the
name of Lowthers, as a general or comprehensive name,
to the great range extending eastward across the S of
Lanarkshire and the N of Dumfriesshire, to the southern
borders of Peebles and Selkirk shires. Dr John Brown,
in his Enterkin, has finely pictured their ' vast expanse
covered with thick, short, tawny grass and moss,' and
the graves of the suicides who used to be buried here.
—Ord. Sur., sh. 15, 1864.
Lowthertown, a village in Dornock parish, Dumfries-
shire, Sh miles E of Annan.
Lowtis or Lotus Hill, an eminence (1050 feet) on the
mutual border of New Abbey and Kirkgunzeon parishes,
Kirkcudbrightshire, 2f miles ENE of Kirkgunzeon vil-
lage. It projects from the NW side of the Crillel moun-
tains, audoverhangsLoch Arthur. — Orel. Stir. , sh. 5, 1857.
Low Waters, a village in Hamilton parish, Lanark-
shire, 1 mile SSW of the town.
Loyal or Laoghal, Loch, a wood-fringed lake on the
mutual border of Tongue and Farr parishes, Sutherland,
5 miles SSE of Tongue village. Lying 369 feet above
sea-level, it extends 4| miles northward, has a maximum
width of 7 furlongs, contains three islets, and is over-
hung to the W by Ben Loyal (2504 feet), to the E by
Bexstomino (1728). It contains magnificent ti-out and
salmo-ferox, is frequented by waterfowl, is fed by sixteen
rivulets, and from its foot sends off the river BoRGlE,
lOf miles north-north-eastward to Torrisdale Bay. See
Craggie.— Orrf. Sur., shs. 102, 108, 1880-81.
Lubnaig, Loch, a lake of Balquhidder and Callander
parishes, SW Perthshire, 1 mile S of Strathyre station
and 3J miles NW of the town of Callander. Lying 405
feet above sea-level, it extends 3J miles south-south-
eastward, has a maximum width of 3 furlongs, and is
traversed by the northern head-stream of the Teith. Its
western shore, closely skirted by the Callander and Oban
railway, is overhung by Ben Vane (2685 feet) and Ben
Ledi (2875) ; whilst from its eastern shore, traversed by
the highroad to Killin, rises Beinn Bhreac'(2250). Its
waters contain salmon, trout, and char; and boats may
be hired. ' We next, ' writes Dorothy Wordsworth, under
date 10 Sept. 1803, 'came to a lake called Loch Lubnaig,
a name which signifies "winding." In shape it some-
what resembles Ulswater, but is much narrower and
shorter. The character of this lake is simple and grand.
On the side opposite to where we were is a range of steep
craggy mountains, one of which — like Place Fell — en-
croaching upon the bed of the lake, forces it to make
a considerable bending. I have forgotten the name of
this precipice: it is a very remarkable one, being almost
perpendicular, and very rugged. We, on the eastern
side, travelled under steep and rocky hills which were
often covered with low woods to a considerable height ;
there were one or two farm-houses, and a few cottages.
A neat white dwelling — Ardchullakie — on the side of
the hill over against the bold steep of which I have
spoken, had been the residence of the famous traveller
Bruce, who, all his travels ended, had arranged the
history of them in that solitude — as deep as any
Abyssinian one — among the mountains of his native
country, where he passed several years. The house
stands sweetly, surrounded by coppice-woods and green
fields. On the other side, I believe, were no houses tOI
we came near to the outlet, where a few low huts looked
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