CULLEN, town and parish on coast of Banffshire. The town stands at mouth of rivulet of its own name, on crescent bay. 14 miles west-north-west of Banff ; was mostly rebuilt on a new site subsequent to 1822 ; is a seaport and a royal burgh, uniting with Banff, Elgin, Peterhead, Inverury, and Kintore in sending a member to Parliament ; presents a regular, well-built appearance ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Fochabers, 2 banking offices, a large hotel, a good harbour, Established, Free, and Congregational churches, and 2 public schools with about 451 scholars. Beal property in 1880-81, £3535. Pop. 2033. — The parish comprises 881 acres. Beal property of landward part in 1880-81, £1219. Pop. 2236. The land has a bold rocky coast, includes Bin of Cullen Hill, 1048 feet high, is mostly rolling and picturesque, and comprises Seafield estate, giving the titles of viscount and earl to the family of Ogilvy. Cullen House, a. seat of the Earl, stands near the town. Cullen rivulet comes in from Deskford, and has a total run of about 7 miles. There are 3 public schools for 542 scholars, and 1 of them for 430 is new.
CULLEN, seat near Strathaven, Lanarkshire.
CULLERLIE, estate in Echt parish, Aberdeenshire. A public school is on it, and has about 65 scholars.
CULLICUDDEN, ancient parish, now forming western section of Besolis, in Boss-shire. It has a post office, with money order department, under Conan-Bridge, a fragment of its ancient church, and a public school with about 115 scholars.
CULLIN.
CULLISAID, lake in Tongue pariah, Sutherland.
CULLIVOE, hamlet and bay in North Yell, Shetland. The hamlet has a post office under Lerwick, and the bay is a tolerably good open roadstead.
CULLODEN, estate on north-east verge of Inverness-shire. It has a railway station 3j miles east of Inverness, and gives name to the famous battle of 1746. The mansion on it belonged then to Lord President Forbes, and was for several days the head-quarters of Prince Charles Edward. Drummossie Moor, where the battle was fought, is 2 miles south-east of the railway station, and has an obeliskal monument of 1850, commemorative of the battle.
CULLOW, place where fairs are held, near Kirriemuir, Forfarshire.
CULLYCAN, ravine on coast of Gamrie parish, Banffshire.
CULM, hill in Boberton parish, Box-burghshire.
CULMALLIE, ancient parish, now called Golspie, in Sutherland.
CULNAGREIN, suburb or section of Stornoway town, Outer Hebrides.
CULNOAG, place, with site of ancient church, in Sorbie parish, Wigtonshire.
CULRAIN, hamlet on north verge of Boss-shire, 3^ miles north-west-by-west of Bonar-Bridge. It has a post office designated of Boss-shire, and a railway station.
CULROSS, town and parish in detached district of Perthshire. The town stands on face of a brae near Firth of Forth, 6 miles west of Dunfermline; has declined from ancient importance to the condition of a village ; ranks as a royal burgh, uniting with Dunfermline, Inverkeithing, Queensferry, and Stirling in sending a member to Parliament ; was long famous for hammermen, as noticed in Sir Walter Scott's Heart of Midlothian; had an ancient abbey, notable for extensive coal-mining, and now represented by the renovated choir, used as the parochial church ; and has now a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Alloa, 2 inns, a Free church, and a public school with about 112 scholars. Beal property in 1880-81, £1583. Pop. 373.— The parish contains also the villages of Blairburn and Low Valleyfield, and measures about 4 miles in both length and breadth. Acres, 7584. Beal property in 1880-81, £7121. Pop. 1130. The land rises abruptly from the shore, and is mostly undulating, but attains considerable elevation toward the north and north-west. Coal mines were formerly extensive, but are now nearly or quite exhausted. Culross Abbey House was visited by James VI., who called it 'a collier's house,' and went from it to see the mines, but took fright in them, and raised a cry of treason ; and it was built in 1590 by Lord Colville of Culross, and rebuilt by Sir Bobert Preston. Other seats are Castlehill, Blair Castle, and Valleyfield; and the first occupies the site of Dunamarle, a stronghold of the Macduffs, thanes of Fife. An Episcopalian church of 1876 adjoins Castlehill.
CULROY, village, 3J miles north of Maybole, Ayrshire.
CULS ALMOND, parish, averagely about 9 miles east-south-east of Huntly, Aberdeenshire. It contains the post office of Colpy, under Insch. Its length is about 4J miles ; its breadth about 3 miles ; its area 6994 acres. Beal property in 1880-81, £6416. Bop. 828. The surface is bisected by the Ury, and, with exception of two small hills, is level. The chief seat is Newton ; and the chief antiquities are re-mains of a Caledonian camp, vestiges of two Caledonian stone circles, part of an ancient highway, and an inscribed ancient standing-stone. The churches are Established, Free, Congregational, and Episcopalian ; and there are 2 schools with accommodation for 213 scholars.
CULSH, hill, with extensive view, in New Deer parish, Aberdeenshire.
CULSTERNESS, headland, with large cave, in Delting parish, Shetland.
CULTER, village in upper ward of Lanarkshire, and parish partly also in Peeblesshire. The village stands on rivulet of its own name, about 2j miles south-west of Biggar, and lias a post office under Biggar, a railway station, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 72 scholars. The parish is about 7 miles long, and 4 miles broad, and comprises 10,175 acres in Lanarkshire, and 1708 in Peeblesshire. Beal property in 1880-81, £6763 and £2142. Pop. 428 and 146. The northern section is. bounded by the Clyde, and is either level or undulating ; and the southern section rises abruptly into verdant hills, and ascends rapidly into lofty mountains. The rivulet Culter rises in the extreme south, runs along the centre, makes several fine cataracts and cascades, and glides into the Clyde. The seats are Culterallers, Cultermains, Birthwood, Cornhill, and Hartree ; and the chief antiquities are two moats and the site of a Knight Templars' house.
