Kirkgunzeon

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Kirkgunzeon
Scottish Gaelic Cill Fhinnein
Buildings in Kirkgunzeon
Buildings in Kirkgunzeon
Coordinates 54 ° 59 ′  N , 3 ° 46 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 59 ′  N , 3 ° 46 ′  W
Kirkgunzeon (Scotland)
Kirkgunzeon
Kirkgunzeon
administration
Post town DUMFRIES
ZIP code section DG2
prefix 01387
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Dumfries and Galloway
British Parliament Dumfries and Galloway
Scottish Parliament Galloway and West Dumfries

Kirkgunzeon ( Gaelic : Cill Fhinnein ) is a village in the Scottish Council Area Dumfries and Galloway or the traditional county of Kirkcudbrightshire . It is located around nine kilometers northeast of Castle Douglas and twelve kilometers southwest of Dumfries on the right bank of the creek Kirkgunzeon Lane .

history

In past centuries the village was also known as Kirkwinong or Kirkwinnyn . The name is derived from the same person, presumably a saint, who gave the name to Kilwinning in North Ayrshire . In the immediate vicinity of Kirkgunzeon there were once two defense towers, while the 16th-century Drumcoltran Tower to the north has been preserved to this day, while Corra Castle , which is probably from the 17th century on the southern edge, has only survived.

While 661 people lived in Kirkgunzeon in 1871, only 135 people were counted in the 1971 census survey.

traffic

Kirkgunzeon is connected to the trunk road network via a side road to the A711 (Dumfries - Bridge of Dee ). During the 19th century, Kirkgunzeon got its own station along a branch line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway between Dumfries and Castle Douglas. However, the route was abandoned in the wake of the Beeching Ax in the 1960s.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  2. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  3. ↑ a b Kirkgunzeon in: FH Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing, Edinburgh, 1885.
  4. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ↑ Entry on Corra Castle  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  6. ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  7. ↑ Entry on Kirkgunzeon Station  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

Web links

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