Drummore

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Drummore
Scottish Gaelic To Druim Mòr
Street in Drummore
Street in Drummore
Coordinates 54 ° 41 ′  N , 4 ° 54 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 41 ′  N , 4 ° 54 ′  W
Drummore (Scotland)
Drummore
Drummore
administration
Post town STRANRAER
ZIP code section DG9
prefix 01776
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Dumfries and Galloway
British Parliament Dumfries and Galloway
Scottish Parliament Galloway and West Dumfries

Drummore , Gaelic An Druim Mòr , is a village in the Scottish Council Area Dumfries and Galloway or in the traditional county of Wigtownshire . It is located around 21 kilometers south of Stranraer on Luce Bay near the southern tip of the Rhins of Galloway peninsula . This makes Drummore one of the southernmost towns in Scotland.

history

A church building has been in the area since 1386 at the latest. With the construction of today's Old Parish Church of Kirkmaiden in 1638, the older building became obsolete. Today , St Medan's Church , built in 1903 in Drummore in neo-Gothic style, serves as the parish church.

To the west of the village are the remains of a medieval moth . With the Tower House Drummore Castle on the western edge of the village, there is another fortification, probably dating from the 16th century, in the immediate vicinity.

Probably in the middle of the 19th century, Drummore was given a small port, which in the past was important as a local trading post for the village. Most of the houses in the Drummore are from the same century.

As part of the 1971 census survey, Drummore counted 336 residents. This meant a decrease of 54 people in ten years.

traffic

The A716 , which connects the coastal towns on the east side of the southern Rhins of Galloway, forms the main road from Drummore. At Stranraer there is a connection to the A75 ( Stranraer - Gretna Green ) and the A77 coming from Glasgow .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  2. ↑ a b Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  3. ↑ Entry on Old Parish Church of Kirkmaiden  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  4. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  6. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  7. ↑ Entry on Drummore Castle  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  8. ↑ Drumore in: FH Groome (Ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882–1885.
  9. ^ Information in the Gazetter for Scotland

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