Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland

CANNOR
Cannor or Kinord, a sedgy loch in the Tullich section
of Glenmuick parish, Aberdeenshire, 5J miles ENE of
Ballater. Lying at the foot of Culblean, not far from
the Vat, it has an utmost length and breadth of 6 and 4
furlongs ; is shallow toward the E end, but deepens to
a depth of S or 4 fathoms in the middle ; is beauti-
fully skirted with birch woods, and studded with islets ; .
and is said to have taken its name from a hunting-seat
of Malcolm Ceannmor, on the largest of its islets. — Ord.
Sur., sh. 66, 1871.
Canny, a rivulet chiefly of Kincardineshire, but partly
of Aberdeenshire. Rising at the western extremity of
the Hill of Fare, it runs about 5J miles southward and
eastward, through Banchory-Ternan parish, next 3 miles
southward, partly within Aberdeenshire, partly within
Banchory-Ternan; and falls into the Dee at Invercanny,
2 miles above Banchory village. A hamlet called Bridge
of Canny is on it, and has a post office under Banchory.
For new parish and county boundaries, see under Ban-
chory-Devenick and Banchory-Ternan.
Canonbie, a Border village and parish of Eskdale,
SE Dumfriesshire. The village stands on the Esk's
left bank, J mile WSW of Canonbie station, on a branch
of the North British, this being 5 j miles SSE of Lang-
holm, 1J NNW of Biddings Junction, and 15J N by E
of Carlisle; at it are a post office, with money order,
savings bank, and telegraph departments, a hotel, a
parish and a Free church, and a school.
The parish also contains the hamlets of Rowan Burn
and Overtown, If mile ESE and 3 miles W of the village.
It is bounded NW by Langholm an d Ewes, E by Castleton
in Roxburghshire, SE and S by Cumberland, and W by
Half Morton ; and in outline rudely resembling a triangle,
with the English Border for base, it has an extreme
length from NNE to SSW of llj miles, an extreme
breadth from NW to SE of 5J miles, and an area of
24,360 acres, of which 21S are water. The Esk,
followed closely by the railway, flows 5f miles SSE
through the interior, next 5 furlongs SS"W along the
Border ; and its tributaries, Tarras Water, running
south-south-westward, and Irvine Burn, east-north-east-
ward, trace nearly all the boundary with Langholm.
Liddel Water, traversing a rugged channel, between
picturesque and romantic flanks, and failing into the
Esk, traces for 75 miles the south-eastern boundary ;
whilst Archer Beck and Rowan Burn, running to the
Liddel, Byre and Glenzier Burns to the Esk, drain
large portions of the interior. Most of the waters afford
good sport to anglers. The surface may be described as
comprising the low grounds of Eskdale, including
haughs and other strips of low flat land along the banks
of the principal streams ; is elsewhere diversified by
numerous undulations, ridges, and hilly eminences ; and
has a general descent southward and south-eastward
from the neighbouring mountainous tracts of Liddesdale,
Ewes, and Langholm. In the extreme S, where the Esk
passes into Cumberland, the surface sinks to 98 feet
above sea-level, thence it rises north-westward to Outer
Hill (548 feet) and Viewy Knowe (652)— north-north-
eastward to Harelawpike (614), the Craigs (707), Brunt-
ehiel Hill (820), the Haunches (1090), and Black Edge
(1461). The rocks are partly eruptive, partly Silurian,
and extensively carboniferous. Slate clay of a greyish
black and ash-grey colour, and rich in both animal and
vegetable fossils, is found. Coal, limestone, and a
friable sandstone occur chiefly in hollows over the
Silurian rocks, and are largely worked. Several chaly-
beate springs are within the parish ; and near Tarras
Water is a famous petrifying spring. The soil along
both sides of the Esk, and on the banks of the Liddel,
is a light and very fertile loam ; that on the higher
grounds is variously retentive clay or moist humus,
naturally barren, but now greatly improved by drain-
ing. About eight-elevenths of the entire area are under
the plough, and some 1500 acres under wood ; the
remainder is mostly hill pasture. The Duke of Bue-
cleuch is sole proprietor, and the chief residences, held
in feu from him, are Woodhouselees, Forge, Marsh
House, Crookholm, and Woodslee. Remains of a
CAPEHOPE
Roman station crown a rising ground near Gilnockie
station ; and ruins of famous mediaeval strongholds are
at Hollows and Harelaw. Remains of other mediae-
val strengths are at Mumbyhirst, Auchenrivock, Hall-
green, Woodhouselees, and Sark. Vestiges of an Austin
priory, founded about 1165, and destroyed by the English
after the battle of Sol way Moss in 1542, are at Hallgreen.
At Woodhead, in 1864, three silver mediaeval brooches,
now in the Edinburgh Antiquarian Museum, were found
along with coins of Edward I. and II., John Baliol, and
Alexander III. Canonbie is in the presbytery of Lang-
holm and synod of Dumfries ; the living is worth £387.
The original church, St Martin's, was often called the
' Liddel Church ' from its situation on the bank of the
Liddel ; a subsequent one stood on the peninsula be-
tween the Liddel and the Esk, and was long subordinate
to Jedburgh Abbey. The present parish church, erected
in 1822 at a cost of £3000, is a good edifice, with 1400
sittings. There is also a Free church, 1 mile NNW, on
the opposite side of the Esk ; and 5 public schools — Can-
onbie, Gilnockie, Glenzier, Harelaw, and Rowanburn
(infants) — with respective accommodation for 350, 91, 70,
il, and 99 children, had (1891) an average attendance
of 207, 59, 49, 45. and 53, and grants of £232, 12s. 6d.,
£50, 4s. 6d., £46, 13s., £38, 12s., and £42, 19s. 6d.
Pop. (1881) 2723, (1891) 2476.— Ord. Sur., shs. 10, 11,
1864-65.
Canongate, a large and ancient suburb and parish of
Edinburgh. The parish was so extensively rearranged
by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891 as to require
too much space to describe it here ; but the new bound-
aries can be easily followed on the six-inch ordnance
map. See Edinburgh.
Canonmills. See Edinburgh.
Canter. See Ceannmor.
Canterland, a dell or den in the SW of St Cyrus
parish, Kincardineshire. It is traversed by a brook of
the North Esk river; and it contains quarries of flag-
stones and shale.
Cantick Head. See Candick.
Cantray, an estate, with an elegant modern mansion,
in Croy and Dalcross parish, Inverness-shire, on the left
bank of the Nairn, 9 miles ENE of Inverness, and 4£ S
of Fort George station. Its owner, Hugh Davidson, Esq. ,
holds 3228 acres in the shire, valued at £1934 per annum.
Canty, a bay and a fishing hamlet in North Berwick
parish, Haddingtonshire, 1 J mile SSW of the Bass, and
2| E of North Berwick town. The bay is small but
picturesque, and the landlord of the inn keeps boats for
conveying visitors to the Bass.
Cantyre. See Kintyre.
Caol, a small sea-loch in Kilfinichen and Kilvicenan
parish, SW of Mull, Argyllshire. It strikes westward
from Loch Lahaich, and is too shallow to afford anchor-
age to sea vessels.
Caolas-Uist, the sound or sea-belt between the islands
of Uist and Bernera in the Inverness-shire Hebrides.
Caolchurn. See Kilchurn.
Caolisport or Killisport, a seaboard district and a
sea-loch in South Knapdale parish, Argyllshire. The
district includes the peninsula and point of Knap,
between Loch Sivin on the NW and Loch Caolisport
on the SE. Loch Caolisport enters from the S end
of the Sound of Jura ; penetrates 6J miles north-east-
ward, contracting gradually from a width of 2 miles
to a point ; includes several beautiful small bays ; and
affords safe anchorage. Its SE screen rises gradually
into hill ; its NW shore is rocky, abrupt, and bold ; and.
both are richly clothed with copsewood. Achahoish
hamlet lies at its head. ' The curious cave chapel,' says
Skene, ' at Cove, on Loch Caolisport, which tradition
says was Columba's first church in Scotland before he
sailed to Iona, is probably connected with his residence
with King Conall in 563. ' It is 42 feet long, and contains
an altar with a cross-calvary and an oval piscina.
Caolvalloch, a hamlet in Weem parish, Perthshire.
Capehope, a burn in Hounam parish, Roxburghshire,
It rises in three head-streams among the Cheviot Hills,
adjacent to the boundary with England, and runs about
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