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———;MILNHEADMINGARY CASTLE•cliurch, built as a chapel ot ease about 1840 at a cost of£1500, in 1873 was raised to quoad sacra status. Thereare also a U.P. church (1799; 517 sittings) and StJoseph's Roman Catholic church (1872 ; 300 sittings). Apublic and a Roman Catholic school, with respectiveaccommodation for 400 and 102 children, had (1882) anaverage attendance of 319 and 65, and grants of £290,7s. 6d. and £51, 18s. Milngavie is a police burgh underthe General Police and Improvement Act (Scot.) of 1862.Its municipal constituency numbered 436 in 1884, whenthe annual value of real property was £6804, and therevenue (including assessments) amounted to £394. Pop.
—;;MINGINISHMINNIGATFmnrchan peninsula, at the moutli of Loch Sunart,looking along the Sound of Mull, and confronting thenorth-western extremity of Mull island, 6 miles N byW of Tobermory and 20 WSW of Salen. Crowning ascarped rock, which rises 24 feet niurally from thesea, it measures more than 200 feet in circumferenceand has an irregular hexagonal outline, adapted to theconfiguration of the ground, being broadest on the landwardside, where it is defended by a dry ditch. Its high,strong, battlemented, outer wall is seemingly of ancientconstruction, little fitted to resist artillery; but athree-story house and some offices are said to have beenerected so late as the beginning of last century. Ancientlythe seat of the Maclans, a clan of Macdonalds,descended from an early Lord of the Isles, it twice was occupiedby James IV.—first in 1493, when he issued acharter hence ; next in 1495, when he received the submissionof the chieftains of the Isles. It was, partly atleast, demolished, in 1517, by the Knight of Lochalsh ;sustained a siege, in 1588, by the Macleans, but was relievedby a Governmeut force ; and was captured, in1644, by Colkitto, who made it the prison of a smallbody of Covenanters, including three ministers. Now,though strictly a ruin, it is still in a state of tolerablepreservation.Minginish. See Braoadale.Minishant, a hamlet in Maybole parish, Ayrshire, 3Jmiles NNE of Maybole town, under which it has a postoffice.Minnick Water, a rivulet of Sanquhar parish,Dumfriesshire, rising at an altitude of 1740 feet, onthe north-western slope of Lowther Hill, close to theLanarkshire boundary, and 9 furlongs SSE of Wanlocklead.Thence it runs 6J miles west-south-westward,receiving in its progress three tributaries, each nearlyequal to itself in volume, and falls into the Nith, justbelow Minnock-Bridge village, 2 mUes SE of Sanquhar.Some wildly romantic spots, interesting both for theirown scenery and for association with traditions of theCovenanters, are on its banks ; and a road goes up allits vale to Wanlockhead, leading thence to Leadhills'and Upper Strathclyde. Ord. Sur., sh. 15, 1864.Minnick, Water of. See Minnoch.Minniehive. See Moniaive.Minnigaff (Gael, monadh-dubh,region '), a hamlet and a parish indark mountainousthe extreme W of'Kirkcudbrightshire. The hamlet stands on a low pieceof ground at the influx of Penkill Burn to the Cree, fmile N of the post-town, Newton-Stewart. Before thattown had come into existence this was a place of someimportance, for Symson describes it in 1684 as having a'very considerable market every Saturday, frequented bythe moormen of Carrick, Monnygaife, and other moorplaces, who buy there great quantities of meal and malt.'The parish, containing also Blaokckaig village andthe Creebridoe suburb of Newton-Stewart, is boundedNW and N by Barr in Ayrshire, NE by Carsphairn andKells, SE by Girthon and Kirkmabreck, and SW byPenninghame in Wigtownshire. Its utmost length,from N to S, is 16| miles ; its utmost breadth, from Ethose already noticed, are Loch Grennoch (2 miles x 3furl. ; 680 feet) at the Girthon boundary. Loch Enoch(64 X 4J furl. ; 1650 feet) at the Ayrshire boundary, thethree Lochs of the Dungeon, Loch Neldricken, LochVaUey, etc. ; and streams and lakes alike afford capitalangling. The surface is everywhere hilly or mountainous,chief elevations from S to N being Cairnsmore ofFleet (2331 feet), Larg Hill (2216), Laraaehan Hill(2349), Benyellary (2360), Merrick (2764), and KirriereochHill (2562), of which Merrick is the loftiestsummit S of the Grampians. The general landscape isdescribed by Dr A. Geikie as 'one wild expanse ofmountain and moorland, roughened with thousands ofheaps of glacial detritus, and dotted with lakes enclosedamong these rubbish mounds.' Indeed, with the exceptionof a warm nook of about 6 square miles in theextreme S, and of some narrow strips of carse-land alongthe principal streams in the W, the whole region is onevast sheep-walk, where 'heath and moss, rocks andstones without end, and jagged hills, with here andthere bright verdant patches on their rugged sides,form 'the chief features of the scenery.' Large part ofthis wild district at one time formed part of the farreachingForest of Buchan—a name preserved in thatof Buchan farm, the house of which stands on the Nbank of Loch "Trool, and which to the shepherds isknown as the Four ' Nines, ' from its erroneously estimatedarea of 9999 acres. The prevailing rocks areclay slate and grejTvacke, of Upper Silurian age, withintrusive masses and boulders of granite ; and nowherein the South of Scotland are the traces of glaciation tobe witnessed on a grander scale than in the Merrickuplands. Veins of lead ore, from 2 to 5 feet thick,occur on the estates of Machermore and Kirroughtree ;and at East Blackcraig, on the former property, leadand zinc still are mined, though in much less quantitythan formerly. The soil of the low grounds along theCree and Palnure Burn is mostly a tenacious clay, interspersedwith patches of moss ; on the other low groundsis dry and gravelly, abounding with stones ;and elsewhereis very various. Little more than one-fifteenthof the entire area is in tillage ; some 600 acres are underwood ; and the rest of the land is pastoral or waste.The chief antiquities are Garlies Castle, three motehills, several sepulchral tumuli, a standing stone, andsome cairns. In 1806 Robert Bruce, with 300 followers,is said to have routed 1500 English under the Earl ofPembroke near the head of Loch Trool, at whose foot asmall party of Covenanters were surprised and slain bya troop of dragoons on a winter Sabbath morning of1685. Alexander Murray, D.D. (1775-1813), the selftaughtOrientalist, was the son of a Minnigaff shepherdLieut. -Gen. the Hon. Sir William Stewart, who servedin seventeen campaigns under Nelson and Wellington,and died in 1827, resided for several years at Cumloden,and is buried in the churchyard, along with JohnMackie, Esq. of Bargaly, and James, his son, bothLiberal M. P. 's for the county; and Lieut. -Col. PatrickStewart, C.B. (1832-65), was born at Cairnsmore.Mansions, all noticed separately, are Bargaly, Cairnsmore,Cumloden, Kirroughtree, and Machermore ;to W, is 13g miles ; and its area is 139| square milesor 89,451J acres, of which 1312 are water. Issuing and the Earl of Galloway owns more than half offrom Loch Moan (CJ x 3 furl. ; 675 feet), the Cree the parish, 4 other proprietors holding each an annualwinds 30J miles south-westward and south-south-eastwardvalue of £500 and upwards, 2 of between £100 andalong the Ayrshire and Wigtownshire border to £500, 3 of from £50 to £100, and 9 of from £20 to"within 2J miles of the head of Wigtown Bay. During £50. Giving off a portion to Bargrennan quoad sacrathis course it is joined by the Water of Minnooh, parish, Minnigaff is in the presbytery of Wigtownentering from Ayrshire, and running lOJ miles southwardand the synod of Galloway ; the living is worth £351.; Penkill Burn, rising at an altitude of 1970 feet, The parish church, on a lovely spot overlooking Minni-and running S| miles south-south-westward ; and Palnuregaff hamlet, the town of Newton-Stewart, and the con-Burn, rising at an altitude of 612 feet, and running fluence of the Cree and the Water of Minnoch, is allj miles south-south-westward (for the last 1§ mile good Gothic edifice of 1836, with tower, organ, threealong the Kirkmabreck boundary). The Water of Trooi, fine memorial stained-glass windows, and 850 sittings.flows If mile west-south-westward from wooded Loch Creebridge aud Stronord public schools, with respecTrool (If mile x If furl. ;250 feet) to the Water of tive accommodation for 116 and 100 children, hadMinnoch ; and the Dee, issuing from lone Loch Dee (1883) an average attendance of 76 and 65, and grants{7x4 furl. ; 750 feet), runs first J mUe north-eastward of £72, 18s. and £69, 15s. 6d. Valuation (1860)through the interior, then 6| miles east-south-eastward £12,097, (1884) £18,174, 5s. 7d. Pop. (1801) 1609,along the boundary with Kells. Lakes, other than (1S31) 1855, (1861) 1804, (1871) 1529, (1881) 1587, of35
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