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CRAIGDAIMVIE, islet off Keils Point, in Knapdale, Argyleshire.

CRAIGDALLIE, village in Kinnaird parish, Perthshire.

CRAIGDAM, village in Tarves parish, Aberdeenshire. It has a United Presbyterian church, and a public school with about 94 scholars.

CRAIGDARROCH, seat and head-stream of the Cairn, in Glencairn parish, Dumfriesshire.

CRAIGDARROCH, seat in Contin parish, Ross-shire.

CRAIGDHU, mountain in Port-of-Men-teith parish, Perthshire.

CRAIGDHU, lofty serrated height, flanking part of Truim river, Inverness-shire. It was the gathering place of the Clan Macpherson.

CRAIGDHULOCH, cliff, upwards of 1000 feet high, overhanging Loch Dhuloch, at head of Glenmuick, on mutual border of Aberdeenshire and Forfarshire.

CRAIGELLACHIE, hamlet, one-arched bridge of 150 feet span, and bold rocky romantic height on the Spey, 1 mile north-east of Aberlour, Banffshire. The hamlet has a head post office with money order and telegraph departments, a station at junction of Strathspey and Morayshire railways, and a hotel.

CRAIGELLACHIE, bold rocky romantic height on the Spey, adjacent to Aviemore, Inverness-shire. The Clan Grant took from it their war-cry, ' Stand fast, Craigellachie.'

CRAIGENCALLIE, scene of successful stratagem by King Robert Bruce, at head of Loch Dee, in Minnigaff parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.

CRAIGENCRUNE, Fife.

CRAIGEND, village in East Church parish, Perth. It has a United Presbyterian church and a public school.

CRAIGEND, village in Crosshill district of Old Monkland parish, Lanarkshire.

CRAIGEND, hill in north-west corner of Lanark parish, Lanarkshire.

CRAIGEND, lake and farm in Newabbey parish, Kirkcudbrightshire. The lake is small but beautiful, and the farm has a large easily-moved rocking-stone.

CRAIGEND, seat in Strathblane parish, Stirlingshire.

CRAIGENDORAN, railway station and steamboat harbour about a mile east of Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire. They were formed in 1880-82 at a cost of 50,000.

CRAIGENDS, seat in Kilbarchan parish, Renfrewshire.

CRAIGENFEICH, place, with crags of Osmond stone, in Eaglesham parish^ Renfrewshire.

CRAIGENGAR, hill, 1700 feet high, with very large cave, at meeting point of Lanarkshire, Edinburghshire, and Peeblesshire.

CRAIGENGELT, estate, with seat and numerous artificial hillocks, in St. Ninian's parish, Stirlingshire. hill in Creich parish,

CRAIGENGOWER, hill, 1086 feet high, crowned with monument to Colonel Blair, and commanding a grand view, in Straiton parish, Ayrshire.

CRAIGENSCORE, mountain in Glenbucket parish, Aberdeenshire.

CRAIGFOODIE, seat and hill in Dairsie parish, Fife.

CRAIGFORTH, seat and bold picturesque wooded crag, about 1 mile west of Stirling.

CRAIG GHARTIN, crag at west end of hill-range commencing in Craigellachie, near Aviemore, Inverness-shire.

CRAIG GIBBON, hill, crowned by obelisk, in Auchtergaven parish, Perthshire.

CRAIGGIES, section of Rogart parish, Sutherland.

CRAIG GOWAN, hill, overlooking Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire.

CRAIGHALL, two villages, New and Old, about 2 miles south-south-west of Musselburgh, Edinburghshire. Coalmines are adjacent, and an Established church for the miners was opened in 1877, and contains 500 sittings. Pop. 1365.

CRAIGHALL, village in Coylton parish, Ayrshire. A coal mine is in its vicinity.

CRAIGHALL, seat in Ceres parish, Fife.

CRAIGHALL, seat, surmounting lofty cliff, on Ericht river, in Rattray parish, Perthshire.

CRAIGHEAD, place in Campsie parish, Stirlingshire. It has a public school with about 108 scholars.

CRAIGHEAD, seat in Blantyre parish, Lanarkshire.

CRAIGHEAD, headland in Firth of Tay, near Newport, Fife.

CRAIGHOLM, residence in vicinity of Burntisland, Fife. It was occupied for several summers by Rev. Dr. Chalmers.

CRAIGHOUSE, place on Jura Island, Argyleshire. It has a post office, with money order department, under Greenock.

CRAIGIE, parish, averagely about 3J miles south of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. It has a post office of its own name under Kilmarnock. Its length is 7 miles; its average breadth about 1^ mile ; its area 6576 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 10,752. Pop. 590. The surface is mostly level and fertile, but includes some pastoral eminences, one of them about 500 feet high, commanding an extensive view. The seats are Cairnhill, Barnwell, and Underwood; and the chief antiquity is the ruined Craigie Castle, once the residence of the Wallaces of Craigie. The public school is new, and has accommodation for 100 scholars.

CRAIGIE, village and site of old castle, in East Church parish, Perth.

CRAIGIE, village in Caputh parish, Perthshire.

CRAIGIE, village and hill in Dalmeny parish, Linlithgowshire.

CRAIGIE, hamlet in Belhelvie parish, Absrdeenshire. It has a public school with about 53 scholars.


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