Carsphairn
Carsphairn (Gaelic: An Còrsa Feàrna) is a veelage in the historical coonty o Kirkcoubrishire in Dumfries an Gallowa, Scotland. It is locatit aboot haufwey atween Dawmellinton an St John's Toun o Dalry on the A713 road. Carsphairn annual sheep shaw is haudit in the veelage. Cairnsmore o Carsphairn is til the nor'east o the veelage in the Carsphairn an Scaur Hills. Til the wast is the rig o the Rhins o Kells[1] in the Gallowa Hills.
The veelage haes mony featurs rangin fae an auncient stane circle[2] til a nuclear listenin post[3] (noo disuisst) an includes local amenities sic as a shap, a tearoom, an primary schuil, and a veelage haw.
Cairsphairn Kirk (Kirk o Scotland) wis built in 1815 on the site o an earlier kirk. Addeetions an alterations in the 1930s include the apse an the airchle.
The Knockengorroch Warld Ceilidh taks place here ilka year.[1]
History
[eedit | eedit soorce]Carsphairn wis made an independent pairish aroond 1627,[4] it haed been umwhile a pairt o the pairish o Dalry, an wis creatit a Free Burgh in 1672 unner a chairter requeestit bi Robert Grierson o Lag.[5]
Namely residenters
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Tammas Jackson FRSE LLD (1773-1837) - pheesicist wis born an reart here.[6]
- John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836) - ceevil ingineer an road-builder. Lagwyne juist ootby the veelage wis his bairnheid hame.
- Colonel Alexander Clark-Kennedy o Knockgray (1780-1864) - capturt the eagle an the colours o a French regiment at the Battle o Waterloo.[2]
Industry
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Industry here is mainly landwart, bit, historical, a signeeficant minin industry existit, particular o leid, follaein the diskivery o signeeficant amoonts in 1837. By the mid 1850s the mine wis producin 1,000 tons ilka year.[7] Minin conteenaed in the aurie, wi peak production atween 1906 an 1914. Follaein the end o Warld War I the industry foondert an by 1928 aw leid-minin operations haed ceased.[8]
Leetit biggins in Carsphairn
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Carsphairn Parish Church, Church Of Scotland
- Barlaes
- Carsphairn Parish Churchyard And Mcadam Mausoleum
- Galloway Hydroelectric Power Scheme, Kendoon South Dam
- Dalshangan Stables
- Dalshangan Dovecot
- Holm Of Daltailochan
- Galloway Hydroelectric Power Scheme, Kendoon North Dam
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ map of the Rhinns of Kells with hill walking routes
- ↑ Holm of Daltallochan stone circle
- ↑ Royal Observer Corps database of UK monitoring posts
- ↑ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords (1841) "Sessional Papers Printed by Order of the House of Lords, Or Presented by Royal Command, in the Session 40 & 50 Victoriæ (26th January-22d June) and the Session 50 Victoriæ (19th August-7th October) 1841", Volume 7, P190 Retrieved May 2013
- ↑ Ed. John Nicholson (1855) "Minute book kept by the war committee of the Covenanters in the stewartry of Kircudbright ... 1640 and 1641",[sic, Spelling] P179, Kirkcudbright county. Retrieved May 2013
- ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Julie 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 24 Januar 2013. Retrieved 20 Mairch 2020.
- ↑ Royal Scottish Society of Arts (1851) "Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts", Volume 3, P21., Neill & Company. Retrieved May 2013
- ↑ Payne, P.L. (1967) "Studies in Scottish business history", P107, Routledge, ISBN 0714613495 Retrieved May 2013
External links
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- Carsphairn Community wabsteid
- Parish of Carsphairn Hame Page
- Historical sites in Carsphairn Archived 2014-09-26 at Archive.today
Coordinates: 55°12′37″N 4°15′53″W / 55.21019°N 4.26463°W
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