Imperial gazeteer of Scotland, or, Dictionary of Scottish topography > Volume 1

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CRUDEN.
into the Abbot's hall, which is 20 feet square, lighted
by two small windows to the cast, and one to the
west looking in the court. — Returning from the
Abbot's hall into the church, by the same door, we
find the door in the south-west corner of the church,
the dimensions of which have been already given.
Going out at this door we find ourselves in the
north-east corner of the court; walking five paces
from this we come to a door, semicircular at the
top, S feet high and 5 broad, which opens into a
room arched in the roof immediately below the
Abbot's hall, of the same breadth and length, and
lighted from the east by two small windows. Pro-
ceeding from this room to the south-east corner of
the court, you find a ruinous arch, about 24 feet
long, 10 feet high, and 9 broad, with a stone bench
on both sides ; this seems to have led to a number
of cells, which are now a heap of ruins. Turning
from this arch you walk along the south side of the
court, where there is nothing observable but several
small doors, leading into ruinous cells ; what number
of these there may altogether have been, it is now
impossible to determine, as the greatest part of them
are buried under the rubbish of their own walls.
The Abbot's old house, as it is called, is the only
building of the abbey we have not hitherto men-
tioned. This stands immediately to the south-east
of the ruinous cells above described. It has been
an oblong tower; but the east side, in which the
stair has been built, is now fallen down, which pre-
vents its dimensions from being accurately taken ;
they seem, however, to hare been nearly the same
with the dimensions of the Abbot's new house."
CEOSSEOADS, a hamlet in the east of the parish
of Slamannan, Stirlingshire.
CROSSTON, a hamlet in the parish of Aberlem-
no, Forfarshire. It takes its name from a monu-
mental stone, sculptured with a cross, still standing
in its vicinity.
CEOSS-STEEET, a village in the near vicinity
of the town of Stomoway, Lewis.
CEOSS WATEE. See Luce (Tee).
CEOULIN ISLES, a group of little islands, in
the parish of Applecross, Boss-shire. It lies off the
north side of the entrance of Loch Carron. The
largest, called Croulinmore, is about a mile in length.
Population in 1841, 40; in 1851, 40. Houses, 8.
CEOVIE, a fishing village, upwards of a mile east
of Gardenstown, in the parish of Gamrie, Banffshire.
It is supposed to have been built in the early part
of the 18th century. Population, 164.
CEOY, a parish in the counties of Nairn and
Inverness. It contains a post-office station of its
own name, subordinate to Ardersier. The present
parish comprehends the old parishes of Croy and
Dalcross, which were united in the latter part of the
15th century. Its extreme length is about 21 miles;
but it is so intersected by the parishes of Petty,
Daviot, and Inverness, that its breadth cannot be
exactly ascertained, yet reaches in some points to
9 miles. The river Nairn runs through the parish
for 8 miles, and its strath, with the seats of Kil-
ravock, Holme, and Cantray, forms a scene of true
rural amenity and beauty. The remainder includ-
ing Culloden moor, [see Cullodex,1 is indifferently
cultivated, and has a bleak and naked appearance.
Great improvements, however, have been made on
the estates of Cantray, Kilravock, Holme, Cullo-
den, Leys, and Inches by reclaiming and planting.
There is a lake in the Nairnshire district called the
Loch of the Clans. Leys Castle is a modern princely
mansion, on a commanding site. Dalcross Castle
was built in 1621 by Lord Lovat, and commands
one of the grandest views of the kingdom, extend-
ing from Mealfourvounie to the Ord of Caithness,
but has been allowed to fall into decay. A wild
dismal tract called Clava, about 4 miles south of
the parish church, contains a great number of cairns
and Druidical circles; and a round gravel mound,
on the north-west border of the parish, A a mile east
of Leys Castle, and within 2 J miles of the town of
Inverness, is crowned by one of the most perfect
Druidical temples in the kingdom, consisting of two
concentric circles of large stones set on edge, two
large slabs in the interior, and an immense travelled
upright mass of conglomerate a few feet west of the
outer circle. Population of the parish in 1831, 1,664;
in 1861, 1,873. Houses, 305. Assessed property
in 1860, £8,720.
This parish, formerly a rectory with the vicarage
of Dalcross annexed, is in the presbytery of Nairn,
and synod of Moray. Stipend, £239 3s. lOd. ; glebe,
£11. " Unappropriated teinds, £240 4s. lOd. Pa-
trons, the Earl of Cawdor, and Bose of Kilravock.
Schoolmaster's salary now is £45. The parish
church was built in 1767, and repaired in 1829, and
contains 527 sittings. There is a Free church sta-
tion, whose yearly receipts in 1865 amounted to
£90 17s. 4d. There were three chapels in the par-
ish prior to the Reformation ; and one of these is
supposed to have been built, or to have succeeded
one which was built, at the dawning of Christianity
on the north of Scotland.
CROY, a station on the Edinburgh and Glasgow
railway, and a small village, on the west border of
the parish of Cumbernauld, 4 miles west-south-west
of Castle-Cary, Dumbartonshire.
CROY, an estate in. Stirlingshire. See Kili.earn.
CRUACH, a mountain, rising to the elevation of
2,790 feet above sea-level, on the western margin of
the parish of Fortingal, Perthshire.
CRUACHAN. See Ben-Cruachan.
CEUACH-LUSSA, or Cruach Lusach, that is,
' the Mountain of plants,' a mountain in the parish
of North Knapdale, Argyleshire. It stretches over
a great extent of country, being about 8 miles broad
at the base. It has an elevation of 2,004 feet above
the level of the sea. From its summit, in a clear
day, a fine view may be obtained of Islay, Jura, and
other islands of the Hebrides, and of the island of
Bathlin off the Irish coast.
CEUCKIE HEIGHT, a hill in the parish of Par-
ton, Kirkcudbrightshire, commanding a rich view of
the valleys of the Ken and the Dee.
CRUDEN, a parish, containing a post-office sta-
tion of its own name, and the villages of Finnyfold,
Buller's-Buchan, and Ward, in the district of Buchan,
Aberdeenshire. It is bounded by Longside and
Peterhead parishes on the north; by the North sea
on the east; by Slanes and Logie-Buchan on the
south; and by Ellon on the west. It extends about
8 or 9 miles along the coast, and about 7 or 8 miles
inland. A vast quantity of peat-moss stretches along
the northern boundary. A stream called Cruden
Water, comes in from Ellon, runs right through the
interior to the sea, dividing the parish into two
nearly equal parts, and has altogether from source
to embouchure, a run of about 8 miles. A series of
stupendous precipices, rocks, and crevices fronts all
the northern half of the coast, comprises the far-
famed Bullers of Buchan, and is much admired for
the awful grandeur of its scenery in storms. See
Bulleks of Buchan. A place at the southern ex-
tremity of that series, adjacent to the village of
Ward, admits of vessels unloading coal and lime,
and might be formed into a tolerable harbour. The
bay of Cruden, with a fine sandy beach, extends
thence about 2 miles; and a range of sunken rocks,
running far into the sea, and called the Scares of
Cruden, flanks the southern extremity of the coast,.