Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland

GARTMORN DAM
merchant. Gartmore House, J mile NE of the village,
is a commodious mansion and a seat of R. B. Cunning-
hams Graham, Esq. The parish, constituted in July 1869,
is in the presbytery of Dunblane and synod of Perth and
Stirling; its minister's stipend is £100, with a manse.
The church, built as a chapel of ease in 1790 at a cost of
£400, underwent great improvements in 1872, and con-
tains 415 sittings. There is also a Free church; and
Gartmore public and Dalmary sessional schools, with re-
spective accommodation for 134 and 54 children, have
an average attendance of about 70 and 40, and grants
of nearly £70 and £30. Pop. of q. s. parish (1871)
353, (1881) 718, (1891) 816, of whom 413 were in Dry-
men parish, Stirlingshire. — Ord. Sur., sh. 38, 1871.
Gartmorn Dam, a reservoir on the mutual border of
Alloa and Clackmannan parishes, Clackmannanshire, 2
miles ENE of Alloa town. Formed about the year 1700,
and repaired and improved in 1827 and 1867, it is fed
from the Black Devon rivulet in Clackmannan parish,
and supplies water to the town of Alloa. — Ord. Sur.,
sh. 39, 1869.
Gaxtnavel. See Glasgow.
Gartness, a village, with iron-works, in Shotts parish,
Lanarkshire, on the left bank of North Calder Water,
2 miles ESE of Airdrie.
Gartness, a village and an estate on the AV border of
Stirlingshire. The village has a post office, two woollen
cloth factories, and a station on the Forth and Clyde
Junction section of the North British railway, 1£ mile
ENE of Drymen station, and 22 miles WSW of Stirling.
The estate lies around the station, along Endrick
Water, on the mutual border of Drymen and Killearn
parishes; and possesses much interest, both for its
scenery and for association with the life and labours of
John Napier of Merchiston (1550-1617), the inventor of
logarithms. Endrick Water here, over a run of J mile,
traverses a natural cleft in the solid rock, and rushes
vexedly over a series of mural ledges; in one part, it
passes through a caldron-shaped cavity, the Pot of
Gartness, and forms there a picturesque cascade. A
woollen factory hard by succeeded an ancient mill, the
noise of which, along with that of the cataract, disturbed
the mathematician amid his studies. Though falsely
claimed as a native of Gartness, he at least was the
member of a family who held the estate from 1435,
and he is known to have resided here at various periods
of his life, and here to have prosecuted those studies
which have immortalised his name. An old castle,
overhanging the Pot of Gartness, was his place of resi-
dence, and has left some fragments; a stone taken from
its ruins, and bearing the date 1574, is built into the
gable of the factory ; and some stones, with markings or
engravings on them believed to have been made by
him, are in possession of the present proprietor of the
estate.— Ord. Sur., sh. 30, 1866.
Gartney or Strathgartney, an upland tract in the W
of Callander parish, Perthshire, along the northern
shore of Loch Katrine.
Gartsherrie, a suburban town and a quoad sacra
parish in Old Monkland parish, Lanarkshire. The
town is partly identical with the E side of Coatbridge,
partly extends about a mile to the NNW; and, lying
along the Monkland Canal and reaches of the Cale-
donian and North British railway systems, presents an
urban aspect throughout its identity with Coatbridge,
and a strictly suburban aspect in its north-westward
extension. It contains, in its urban part, the parish
church and a large academy — in its suburban part,
extensive iron-works and dwelling-houses for the opera-
tives in these works, being collectively the most pro-
minent of the seats of iron manufacture which give to
Coatbridge district its characteristic aspect of flame and
smoke and busy traffic. It has a station of its own
name on the Caledonian railway, near the forking of the
line towards respectively Glasgow and Stirling, 1J mile
NNW of Coatbridge station. The church, crowning an
eminence f mile S of the iron-works, was built in 1839
at a cost of £3300, chiefly defrayed by Messrs. Baird.
A handsome edifice, with a spire 136 feet high, it figures
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GARVALD
in the general landscape as a striking feature of Coat-
bridge, and contains 1050 sittings. The academy, near
the church, is also a handsome and prominent edifice,
and supplies a liberal course of instruction. It and a
school at the iron-works, with respective accommodation
for 659 and 369 children, have an average attendance
of about 650 and 300, and grants of over £740 and
£310. The iron-works of Messrs. Baird, first put
in blast on 4 May 1830, are among the best organised
manufactories in Scotland, and have long had a wide
and high reputation for producing iron of superior
quality. The furnaces, 22 feet in diameter and 60
high, stand in two rows, one on each side of the canal,
and about 40 yards distant from it. There are several
hundred workmen's houses, each with two or three
apartments, a small garden plot, and a cheap supply
of gas and water. Gartsherrie House, near the station,
a modern mansion, was the residence and death-place
of Alexander Whitelaw, Esq. (1823-79), M.P. for Glas-
gow from 1874 to 1879. The parish is in the presby-
tery of Hamilton and synod of Glasgow and Ayr, and
was endowed entirely by the late James Baird, Esq.
of Cambusdoon. Pop. of parish (1881) 9070, (1891)
12,155.— Ord. Sur., sh. 31, 1867. See Andrew Miller's
Rise, and Progress of Coatbridge and the Surrounding
Neighbourhood (Glasg. 1864).
Gartshore, an estate, with a mansion, in Kirkintilloch
parish, Dumbartonshire. The mansion, standing 3 miles
E of Kirkintilloch town, is a fine old edifice, with beau-
tiful surrounding woods. The estate was purchased, a
few years before his death, by Alexander Whitelaw, Esq. ,
of Gartsherrie, and is now owned by his eldest son and
namesake. See Gartsherrie. — Ord. Sur., sh. 31, 1867.
Gart, The, a fine mansion in Callander parish, Perth-
shire, on the left bank of the river Teith, 1J mile SE of
the village. Built about 1832 by Admiral Sir William
Houston Stewart, it now is the seat of Dan. Ainslie, Esq.
Garturk, a quoad sacra parish in the south-eastern
district of Old Monkland parish, Lanarkshire. It was
constituted in January 1870; and its post-town is Coat-
bridge, 1J mile to the NW. It comprises a compact
area, including the villages of Whifflet, Rosehall, and
Calder, and also the Calder Iron-works, belonging to
the firm of William Dixon (Limited). These works are
interesting, as the place where the famous and valuable
blackband ironstone, which has proved such a source of
wealth to Scotland, was first discovered. The discovery-
was made in 1805 by Robert Mushet, from whom it
received the name of ' Mushet Blackband, ' and as such
it is still known. In this parish there are also several
other large iron and engineering works, and numerous
coal mines of considerable depth. The parish, which is
in the presbytery of Hamilton and synod of Glasgow
and Ayr, was endowed at a cost of upwards of £8000,
of which £1500 was from the General Assembly's Endow-
ment Fund, the remainder being raised by voluntary
subscription. The church, erected in 1869 and renewed
in 1880, is a handsome edifice — the interior, which is
richly ornamented, being one of the finest specimens of
the Decorated stylo to be seen in this part of the country.
Adjoining the church and under the same roof with it
is a very comfortable manse, prettily situated amidst a
plantation of trees. The parish contains two good
schools — one close beside the church, supported by the
proprietors of Calder Iron-works; the other in Rosehall,
maintained by the owners of Rosehall colliery. With
respective accommodation for 227 and 170 children,
these schools have an average attendance of about 220
and 160, and grants of over £240 and £160. Pop.
(1871) 3883, (1881) 4266, (1891) 4551.— Ord. Sur., sh.
31,1867.
Garvald, a village and a parish in Haddingtonshire.
The village stands towards the N of the parish, 450 feet
above sea-level, on the left bank of Papana Water, Si-
miles S of East Linton station, and 5| ESE of Hadding-
ton; it has a post office under Prestonkirk. In 1893 a
bill was introduced into Parliament for the construction
of a deviation railway from the Macmerry branch of the
North British to Gifford and Garvald.