Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland

LINWOOD
Linwood, a village in Kilbarchan parish, and a quoad
sacra parish in Abbey parish, Renfrewshire. The vil-
lage stands on the left bank of Black Cart Water (here
spanned by a one-arch bridge), 1J mile NE of Johnstone,
and 3J miles W of Paisley, under which it has a post
office, with money order, savings bank, and telegraph
departments. It arose from a large cotton-mill, built
in 1792, burned down in 1802, and rebuilt in 1805; was
laid out on a regular plan; is inhabited chiefly by the
operatives of its cotton-mill, and by workers in the
paper-mill and in neighbouring mines; acquired, in
1872, a water supply by pipes from the Paisley water-
works; and has an Established church, a public school,
and a Roman Catholic chapel-school. The quoad sacra
parish, constituted in 1880, is in the presbytery of
Paisley and the synod of Glasgow and Ayr; its minister's
stipend is £200. Pop. of village (1881) 1393, (1891)
1315; of quoad sacra parish (1881) 2505, (1891) 3295.
—Ord. Sur., sh. 30, 1866.
Lismore (Gael. ' great garden '), an island of Lorn
district, Argyllshire, in the middle of the lower waters
of Loch Linnhe, less than 1 furlong from the nearest
point of the Argyllshire mainland, and 5 to 11 miles
NNW and N of Oban. Its utmost length, from NE
to SW, is 10J miles; its breadth is lj mile; and its
area is 6013| acres, of which 368 are foreshore and
93 water. With a basis of limestone, it consists of an
uneven rocky ridge; and its rugged surface attains a
maximum altitude of 417 feet above sea-level at Barr
Mor. Limestone rock crops everywhere up; but the
soil, though thin, is a fertile deep-coloured loam. A
lighthouse on Musdile Island, at the south-western
extremity of Lismore, built in 1833 at a cost of £11,229,
shows a fixed light, visible at a distance of 16 nautical
miles. The bishopric of Lismore or Argyll in 1236 had
its seat transferred from Muekairn on the S side of Loch
Etive to the island of Lismore, where long before a
Columban monastery had been founded by St Lughadh
or Moluoc. The only remains of the Cathedral, once
137 by 29J feet, are an aisleless Decorated choir, with
traces of a chapter-house and sacristy; and as re-roofed
in 1749 this choir now serves as a parish church. It
is situated at the Clachan of Lismore. One of its deans,
Sir James M'Gregor, between 1512 and 1540, compiled
a commonplace-book, filled mainly with Gaelic heroic
ballads, several of which are ascribed to the authorship
of Ossian or his kindred. This, the earliest specimen
of Scottish Gaelic, strictly so called, was edited, with a
translation and notes, by the Rev. T. M'Lauchlan and
Dr Skene, in 1862. There are a U.P. and a Baptist
church, and two schools; while at the north-west end
of the island stands the small village of Port Ramsay, j
A pier has been erected at Achnacroish. Three fresh-
water lakes afford a good supply of salmon, trout, etc. !
Besides oats and potatoes, great quantities of lime !
are exported. Achanduin or Auchindown Castle,
Castle Rachal, Castle Guylen (a Danish fort), and
Tirefoor Castle, with cairns and fortified camps, make
up the antiquities. Lismore is the Epidium of Ptolemy,
one of his five Ebudse. Pop. (1861) 865, (1871) 720,
(1881) 621, (1891) 561, of whom 508 were Gaelic-speak-
ing.— Ord. Sur., shs. 45, 44, 1876-84.
Lismore and Appin, a united parish in Lorn district,
N Argyllshire. It comprehends the ancient parishes
of Appin and Lismore, with the whole of Ellan-
Munde ; and includes Lismore proper and the great
district of Appin, the former consisting of islands in
Loch Linnhe, the latter lying on the SE side of Loch
Linnhe, and extending from Loch Creran to Loch Leven.
The Kingairloch detached portion of the parish, situated
on the western shore of Loch Linnhe, and comprising
22,730 acres, was transferred by the Boundary Com-
missioners in 1891 to Kilmallie. The parish is bounded
N by Inverness-shire, E by Glenorchy and Ardchattan,
S by Ardchattan, Kilmore, and Torosay, and W by
Morvern and Kilmallie. Its area is 94,725 acres, of
which 829J are water. Its districts and features, other
than Lismore island, are noticed in our articles on
Aires, Appin, Ballachulish, Castle- Mearnaig,
LIVINGSTON
Creran, Duror, Glencoe, Glenoreran, Leven,
Musdile, and Shuna. At most, 4000 acres are in
tillage; nearly as many are under wood; and all the
rest of the land is moss, moor, hill-pasture, or barren
mountain. Giving off the quoad sacra parishes of
Appin, Duror, and St Munda (Gleneoe), and including
the chapelry of Glencreran, Lismore is in the presbytery
of Lorn and the synod of Argyll; the living is worth
£324. There are a U.P. church, a Baptist chapel,
and a post office at Lismore. In the civil parish nine
schools — two of them Episcopalian, the rest public —
with total accommodation for 880 children, have an
average attendance of about 500, and grants amounting
to nearly £683. Pop. (1801) 3243, (1831) 4365, (1861)
3595, (1871) 3535, (1881) 3433, (1891) 3135, of whom
2577 were Gaelic-speaking, and 681 were in the ecclesi-
astical parish.— Ord. Sur., shs. 45, 44, 53, 1876-84.
Liston. See Kirkliston.
Listonshiels. See Kirkliston and Currie.
Little Colonsay. See Colonsat, Little.
Littledean Tower, a ruined baronial fortalice in Max-
ton parish, Roxburghshire, on the right bank of the
river Tweed, 1J mile NE of Maxton village. Down to
the first half of the 18th century it was the seat of a
branch of the Kers, and now belongs to Lord Polwarth.
—Ord. Sur., sh. 25, 1865.
Little Dunkeld. See Dunkeld, Little.
Little France, a hamlet in Liberton parish, Edin-
burghshire, 3 furlongs S of Craigmillar Castle, and 1J
mile N of Gilmerton. The French servants of Queen
Mary resided here when in attendance upon her at
Craigmillar Castle.
Little Loch Broom. See Broom and Lochbroom.
Littlemill, a village in Old Kilpatrick parish, Dum-
bartonshire, on the N bank of the Clyde, near Bowling,
and 2 miles ESE of Dumbarton. It carries on ship-
building, and has a distillery.
Little Roe, an islet (4| x 3 furl. ) of Delting parish,
Shetland, in Yell Sound, 7 furlongs from the northern
coast of the mainland part of Delting.
Little Ross, a small island of Borgue parish, Kirk-
cudbrightshire, at the W side of the mouth of the Dee's
estuary, J mile E of the headland which separates the
entrance of that estuary from the entrance of Wigtown
Bay. Measuring 2£ furlongs by 1, it is crowned by a
lighthouse, which rises 175 feet above high water, and
commands a magnificent view of the waters and screens
of the estuary, all northward to Kirkcudbright, whilst
seaward it looks across the entire breadth of Wigtown
Bay, and along the Solway Firth on to its mergence
with the Irish Sea. The lighthouse, built in 1843 at a
cost of £8478, shows a flashing light every five seconds,
visible at the distance of 18 nautical miles, and guiding
the navigation of the Solway ; and two towers, standing
on a line with the lighthouse in a north-easterly direc-
tion, serve to guide a vessel over the bar at the mouth
of the Dee into the fairway of the estuary. — Ord. Sur.,
sh. 5, 1857.
Little Sorbie. See Sorbie.
Littlewood, a pretty shooting-box in Tullynessle
parish, Aberdeenshire, on the left bank of the Don, 5
miles W by N of Alford.
Livet Water. See Glenlivet.
Livingston (' Leving's town,' after a Fleming of that
name who settled here about the time of Alexander I.),
a parish with a village of the same name near the middle
of the SE border of the county of Linlithgow. It is
bounded NE by Uphall parish, E and SE by the county
of Edinburgh, SW by Whitburn parish, and NW by
the parishes of Bathgate and Ecclesmachan. On the
SE the boundary follows the course of the river Almond
from a point almost 1 mile due E of Livingston church,
up to the junction with Breich Water, and then follows
the course of the latter stream for 3^ miles, till near
Auchinhard the parish of Whitburn is reached. From
this it passes 5 furlongs NNW to the SE branch of
Foulshiels Burn, down which it passes to the Almond
and up the Almond to a point 2£ furlongs due W of
Riddoch-hill. Elsewhere, except at the N corner where
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