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CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE.
Galston, MauoHine, Tarbolton, Monkton, and Sym-
ington. Its extreme length is 7 miles, and its aver-
age breadth 1J mile. Most of the surface is level,
arable, fertile, and well-enclosed. The eminences
are not high, and afford fine pasturage. From a
hill 500 feet above the level of the sea, a spectator
looks round on a richly cultivated beautiful expanse
of 100 square miles, and sees Benlomond and seve-
ral of the Grampians raising their lofty summits
toward the north, and the ridges of Jura serrating
th.6 horizon on the west, and the hills of Ireland
dimly merging from the sea on the south. Tile-
clay exists, and limestone abounds. Much attention
is paid to the dairy. There are eleven landowners.
The real rental is about £9,100. The mansions are
Cairnhill, Barnwell, and Underwood. The chief
antiquity is the rain of the old castle of Craigie.
The parish is traversed by the road from Kilmar-
nock to Tarbolton. Population in 1831, 824; in
1861, 730. Houses, 104. Assessed property in
1843, £8,057 13s. 5d. ; in 1860, £9,108.
This parish, formerly a vicarage, is in the pres-
bytery of Ayr, and synod of Glasgow and Ayr.
Patron, Campbell of Craigie. Stipend, £247 7s. lOd.
Unappropriated teinds, .£360 4s. Id. Schoolmaster's
salary now is £50, with £18 school-fees. The
church was built in 1776. Craigie includes part of
the suppressed parish of Barnwell; and there was
formerly a school there.
CRAIGIE, a village in the East Church parish of
Perth, J a mile south of the city of Perth, around
the site of the old castle of Craigie, and divided into
Upper and Lower Craigie. Population, 220.
CRAIGIE, a village in the parish of Caputh,
Perthshire.
CEAIGIE, a village in the east of the parish of
Dalmeny, Linlithgowshire. Population in 1841, 75.
Craigie-Hill in the vicinity consists of erupted rock,
and commands an extensive brilliant prospect.
Craigie-Hall, also in the vicinity, is a very beauti-
ful policy on the Almond, — which river here forms
a picturesque cascade beneath a rustic bridge.
CRAIG IEBAENS, a hill in the vicinity of Dun-
keld, Perthshire. Its height is upwards of 1,000
feet above sea-level. Its outline is picturesque, and
its sides are richly clothed with wood. It is the
chief feature in the splendid landscape seen from
Dunkeld bridge. The top of this hill commands a
prospect extremely rich and diversified. To the
south is the vale of the Tay as far as the Ochils,
with the hill of Bimam in the foreground. On the
left hand, to the eastward, is the valley of Stormont,
with a beautiful chain of lochs, six in number. To
the west and north is seen the Tay flowing in ma-
jestic grandeur through a narrow vale, with the
high mountains of Athol, Schihallion, and Bengloe,
on the north.
CEAIGIEHALL. See Craigie, Linlithgowshire.
CEAIGIELANDS, a post-office village in the
parish of Kirkpatrick- Juxta, Dumfries-shire. Popu-
lation in 1841, 84. See Kirkpatrick- Juxta.
CEAIGIEVAE, an estate in the parish of Leochel-
Cushnie, Aberdeenshire. The mansion is a castel-
lated structure in the Flemish style, built in the
early part of the 17th century, and well-repaired in
1826. It has a grim appearance ; and over the
heavy doorway of the keep is the inscription, " Do
not waken sleepin dougs." Fairs are held at Crai-
gievar on the day in March after Huntly, on the
Friday in April before Brechin, on the day in May
after Wartle, on the Thursday after the last Tues-
day of June old style, on the day in July after St.
Sairs, on the day in August after Huntly, and on
the day in September after Keith.
CRAIGLEITH, a small island in the frith of
Forth, about a mile north of North Berwick, to which
it belongs. It supports a few rabbits.
CRAIGLEITH, the largest freestone quarry in
Scotland. It is the property of Ramsay of Barnton,
and is situated about 2 miles north-west of the New
town of Edinburgh, on the Queensferry road. Wben
first opened, it was rented at about £50 per annum ;
during the great building years in Edinburgh, from
1820 to 1826, it 3delded £5,500 a-year. A cubic
foot of Craigleith stone weighs 148 lbs. It is of
two kinds ; one of a fine cream colour, called liver-
rock, of which the south front of the Register office
in Edinburgh is built ; the other of a greyish white,
called 'feak-rock.' Stones are raised from the
strata in this quarry chiefly by means of wedges.
The monolithic columns in front of the College of
Edinburgh, each 23 feet high, and 3 in diameter,
were obtained from this quarry.
CRAIGLIOCH. See Blairgowrie.
CRAIG-LOCKHART, a hill in the parish of
Colinton, about 2 miles south-west of Edinburgh.
It is beautifully wooded. Towards the north-west
the rock exhibits lofty basaltic columns ; and on the
south-east side another range appears in which the
columns are still more distinct than in the former,
but of smaller diameter. The summit of the hill is
elevated 540 feet above sea-level.
CRAIGLUSCAR, a hill in the north-west of the
parish of Dunfermline, 2£ miles north-west of the
town of Dunfermline, Fifeshire.
CRAIGLUSH (Loch), a small lake in the parish
of Caputh, Perthshire, traversed by the river Lunan,
and adjacent to the beautiful Loch of Lows.
CRAIGMILL, a village at the southern base of
the Abbey Craig, in the Clackmannan district of the
parish of Logie. It was formerly notorious for the
smuggling of whiskey.
CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE, a fine old nun in
the parish of Liberton, about 3 miles south of Ed-
inburgh, crowning a gentle eminence on the left of
the road from Edinburgh to Dalkeith, and com-
manding a noble view of the south side of the city,
the frith and opposite coast, and Aberlady bay. It
consists of a square keep or tower, several stories
high, encompassed by a square embattled wall,
which has had circular towers at each angle, and
the whole surrounded by another rampart wall, and
in some places with a deep moat. On the principal
gate is the date 1427. Whether this is meant to
record the time that part was built, or an after-
repair, is uncertain. There are a great variety of
apartments. The great hall is large and well lighted,
considering the mode of ancient times; it has a
semicircular ceiling, and measures in length 36 feet,
in breadth 22 ; and, at the east end, has a chimney
1 1 feet wide. The ascent of the keep is by an easy
flight of broad stone stairs. On the east side of the
outer walls are the arms of Cockburne of Ormiston,
Congalton of that ilk, Moubray of Barnbougle, and
Otterburn of Redford, with whom the Prestons of
Craigmillar were nearly connected. Over a small
gate, under three unicorns' heads couped, is a
wine press and a tun, a rebus for the word Preston.
There are a variety of armorial bearings all over
the outside of this building. The apartment shown
as Queen Mary's, is in one of the upper turrets ; it
measures only 5 feet in breadth, and 7 in length ;
but has, nevertheless, two windows and a fire-place.
The name of this place occurs pretty early in the
national records, in a charter of mortification, in
Haddington's collections, granted in the reign of
Alexander II. a.d. 1212, by William, son of Henry
de Craigmillar ; by which he gives, in pure and per-
petual alms, to the church and monastery of Dun-
fermline, a certain toft of land in Craigmillar, in