Kirkcowan

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Kirkcowan
Kirkcowan's main street
Kirkcowan's main street
Coordinates 54 ° 55 ′  N , 4 ° 36 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 55 ′  N , 4 ° 36 ′  W
Kirkcowan (Scotland)
Kirkcowan
Kirkcowan
administration
Post town NEWTON STEWART
ZIP code section DG8
prefix 01671
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Dumfries and Galloway
British Parliament Dumfries and Galloway
Scottish Parliament Galloway and West Dumfries

Kirkcowan is a village in the Scottish Council Area Dumfries and Galloway or the traditional county of Wigtownshire . It is located around eleven kilometers southwest of Newton Stewart on the left bank of Tarf Water on the northern edge of the Machars peninsula .

history

In the late Middle Ages, the lands south of Kirkcowan were owned by the Dunbar clan . With the Tower House Old Place of Mochrum , the clan established their clan seat in the late 15th century. Probably towards the end of the 16th century a second tower house was added on the south side. Also a Tower House, but from the 16th century formed the nucleus of the western Kirk Cowan mansion Craichlaw House . Presumably in the 17th or 18th century, Kirkcowan received a church. The present Kirkcowan Parish Church was then built in 1834.

While 671 people lived in Kirkcowan in 1881, only 354 inhabitants were counted in the 1981 census survey.

traffic

Kirkcowan is connected to the trunk road network via a side road to the north passing A75 ( Stranraer - Gretna Green ). During the 19th century, Kirkcowan received its own station along the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway of the Caledonian Railway . However, the route was abandoned in the course of the Beeching ax in 1965.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  2. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  4. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  6. ↑ Kirkcowan in: FH Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing, Edinburgh, 1885.
  7. ↑ Information on the Portpatrick Railway

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