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—;NUNGATEBuxar (1764) placed Hindustan at the feet of theEnglish. The estate belongs now to his great-grandsou,R. C. Munro-Ferguson, Esq. of Eaith.— Ord. Sur., sh.93, 1881.Nungate. See Haddington.Nunlands House, a mansion in Foulden parish, Berwickshire,3-| miles S by E of Ayton. Anciently heldby the abbey of Dryburgh, the estate was purchased in1870 by Mr Wilkie of Foxjlden for £8550.— OrcZ. Sur.,sh. 34, 1864.Nunraw Castle, a mansion at the NE border of Garvaldparish, Haddingtonshire, i mile ESE of Garvaldmiles ENE of Gififord, and 7 S by E of EastOBANvillage, 3iLinton. Standing on the western edge of a deep andprecipitous glen, it was built about the middle of the15th century as a peelhouse or fortalice on lands belongingto the Cistercian nunnery of Abbey, near Haddington.Although it has been modernised, it still is a fine oldbuilding. The work of renovation laid bare the paintedceiling of its old refectory, bearing date 1461, and emblazonedwith the arms of the kings of Arragon, Navarre,Egypt, etc. The estate was purchased from R. J. A. Hay,Esq. of Linplum, in 1880, by Walter Wingate Hay, Esq.(b. 1856).— Ord. Sur., sh. 33, 1863. See John Small'sCastles and Mansions of the Lothians (Edinb. 1883).Nunton, a village on Benbecula island. South Uistparish, Outer Hebrides, Inverness-shire, 18 miles SSWof Lochmaddy. It takes its name from an ancient nunnery,which was demolished to furnish building materialfor the mansion and offices of the principal landownerof the parish ; and it has a post office under Lochmaddy,and a Ijranch of the Commercial Bank.Nybster, a coast village in Wick parish, Caithness,10 miles N of Wick town.a headland and a quoad sacra parish inOA, Kildaltonparish, Islay island, Argyllshire. The headland,flanking the S side of Laggan Bay, 3Jmiles NW of Port Ellen and 74 S of Bowmore"overlooks the E side of the entrance of Loch Indal ; hasa beetling, lofty, imposing character ; is crowned withthe ruins of Dunaidh Castle ; was originally calledKeannoath ; is now called the Mull of Oa ; and oftengives its name of Oa to much or all of the entire southeasternpeninsula of Islay. The quoad sacra parish,which comprises the southern part of that peninsula,and which has for Its post-town either Port Ellen orBowmore under Greenock, was constituted first by theecclesiastical authorities, next in 1849 by the courtof teinds. It is in the presbytery of Islay and Juraand the synod of Argyll ; its minister's stipend is£120, with a manse and a glebe worth £12 and £6a year. The church was built at the expense ofgovernment in the first half of the present century.Pop. (1871) 367, (1881) 247, of whom 240 were Gaelicspeaking.Oakbank, a village, with oil-works, in Kirknewtonparish, Edinburghshire, close to Midcalder Junction.Pop. (1871) 355,"(1881) 506.Oakfield. See Bbath.Oakley, a village at the mutual border of Carnockparish, Fife, and Culross parish, Perthshire, with astation on the Stirling and Dunfermline branch of theNorth British railway, 4f miles W by N of Dunfermline.Built in connection with the Forth or OakleyIron-works (1846), it chiefly consists of stone, one-story,slated dwelling-houses, disposed in rows, with interveningspaces more than double the breadth of the streetsof the New Town of Edinburgh ; and has a post officeunder Dunfermline, St Margaret's Roman Catholicchurch (1843), and a public school. The iron-works,now stopped, had six furnaces, with stalks 180 feethigh ; and the engine-house was built of a very beautifulsandstone, with walls so deeply founded and somassive as to comprise 60,000 cubic feet of stone belowthe surface of the ground. Pop. (1861) 1817, (1871)1127, (1881) 312, of whom 92 were in Culross.— OrdSur., sh. 40, 1867.Oakshawhead.See Paisley.Oakwood Tower, a ruined baronial fortalice in Selkirkparish, Selkirkshire, on the right bank of Ettrick Water,44 miles SW of Selkirk town. It belonged in the 13thcentury to the famous wizard, Sir Michael Scott ofandBalweame, in the 16th to Wat Scott of Harden ;is now the property of Lord Polwarth. Ord. Sur., sh.17, 1864.Oathlaw, a parish in the centre of Forfarshire, whosechurch stands 4^ miles NNE of the post-town, Forfar.It includes part of the ancient parish of Finhaven,and on into the present century was oftener known by124that name than its own. It is bounded N by Tannadice,E and SE by Aberlemno, S by Rescobie, and SW,W, and NW by Kirriemuir. Its utmost length, fromE to W, is 5| miles ; its breadth varies between 6ffurlongs and 2 miles ; and its area is 5317J acres,of which 43| are water. The river South EsK firstflows J mile along the westernmost part of thenorthern boundary, then lower down meanders 2fmiles eastward along two other parts of the Tannadiceborder and across the north-eastern interiorand Lemno Burn runs to it east-north-eastward,first 7 furlongs on the Rescobie boundary, next 34miles through the interior. In the W a very powerfulspring of excellent water rises from a bore 160 feetdeep, which was sunk in an unsuccessful search for coaland, being situated in the midst of a corn field, wascovered over from view, and caused to send off' its superfluencein a drain. Along the South Esk the surface declinesto 143 feet above sea-level ; and the highest pointin the parish is the Hill of Finhaven (751 feet), which extendsalong the south-eastern boundary. A gentle slopedescends thence to Strathmore ; an expanse of plainoccupies nearly all the centre and the N ; and a tractalong the South Esk towards the E lies so little above thelevel of that river's bed, and was formerly so subject toinundation by freshets, that it had to be protected bycostly embankments. The predominant rocks are OldRed Sandstone and conglomerate ; and the soil is mostlyof a clayey retentiv/e character, incumbent on 'pan.'Nearly 1200 acres are under wood ; and all the rest ofthe land, except a very few acres, is in tillage. Thechief antiquities are noticed in our articles on Finhavenand Battle-Dykes. Mansions are Finhaven and Newbarns; and the property is divided among seven.Oathlaw is in the presbytery of Forfar and the synodof Angus and Mearns ; the living is worth £210.The parish church, built in 1815, is a neat edificewith a tower, and 189 sittings. "The public school,with accommodation for 63 children, had (1883) anaverage attendance of 49, and a grant of £55, 12s. 6d.Valuation (1857) £3683, (1884) £5559, 5s. Pop. (1801)384, (1831) 533, (1861) 399, (1871) 452, (1881) 440.—Ord. Sicr., sh. 57, 1868.Oban, a parliamentary burgh in the united parish ofKilraore aud Kilbride, Argyllshire. A post and markettown and seaport, and capital of the district of Lorn,it stands on the coast of Mid-Lorn, opposite the northernend of the island of Kerrera, curving round the head ofa deep and beautiful semicircular bay, 24 miles N of theW end of the Crinan Canal, 33 NW by W of Inveraray,92 NW by N of Glasgow, and 136 WNW ofEdinburgh. The site of Oban is one of the most beautifulin Scotland, and one of the most healthy. Theisland of Kerrera, stretching Irom the northern hornof the semicircular bay to a considerable distance past