CUPAR-ANGUS.
CUPAR-GRANGE, estate about 2 miles north of Coupar-Angus, Perthshire. It contains the site of a quondam consider-able village, and was found, some time in last century, to contain two peculiar ancient Caledonian circles.
CUPPASETTER, place, with brotigh, on south-west corner of Yell Island, Shetland.
CUR, rivulet, running about 10 miles to head of Loch Eck, in Cowal district, Argyleshire.
CURGIE, small port on west side of Luce Bay, Wigtonshire.
CURLEE, hill in Innerleithen parish, Peeblesshire.
CURLINGHALL, place in Largs parish, Ayrshire. It has a sculptured stone commemorative of the battle of Largs, fought in 1263.
CURR, hill in Morebattle parish, Roxburghshire.
CURRIE, village and parish in Edinburghshire. The village stands on the Water of Leith, 6 miles south-west of Edinburgh, and has a post office with all departments under Edinburgh, a railway station, a parochial church with about 800 sittings, and a public school with about 108 scholars. Pop. about 300. The parish, contains also Balerno and Hermiston villages. Its length is 8 miles ; its breadth 4i miles ; its area 11,103 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 32,091. Pop. 2390. The surface includes a portion of the Pentlands, with maximum altitude of about 850 feet, and descends thence through great irregularities to an extensive plain. The chief seats are Riccarton, Baberton, and Malleny ; and chief antiquities are Lennox and Curriehill Castles, and re-mains of two Roman stations. A United Presbyterian church is at Balerno, and 4 schools, with accommodation for 471 scholars, are within the parish.
CURRIEHILL, railway station and old castle, 5 miles south-west of Edinburgh.
CURRYSIDE, coal-field in Shotts parish, Lanarkshire.
CUSHIEVILLE.
CUSHLETTER, place, 10 miles north-west of Portree, Isle of Skye.
CUSHNIE, old parish, now united to Leochel, in Aberdeenshire. It contains a hill of its own name, 18S3 feet high, and has a public school with about 118 scholars.
CUTHBERT'S (ST.), parish, partly urban and partly landward, in Edinburghshire. It includes much of Edinburgh, and ex-tends from Braid Hills to Trinity, and from Queen's Park to within a mile of Corstorphine village. Its length is 5 miles ; its breadth 3f miles. It contains all parts of the Old Town of Edinburgh beyond the ancient royalty and Canongate ; all parts of the New Town outside the city parishes of St. George, St. Stephen, St. Andrew, St. Mary, and Greenside ; the suburb of Roseburn ; part of the parliamentary burgh of Leith : parts of AVardie, Granton, Echobank, and Slateford villages ; and all Coltbridge, Murray field, and Comely-Bank semi-suburbs. Pop., quoad civilia, 157,743 ; quoad sacra, 11,967. The urban section comprises every variety of Edinburgh thoroughfare, both ancient and modern ; and the landward section abounds in the rich diversities and beauties of the city's environs. The parochial church stands in a cemetery, with many famous monuments, between West Princes Street Gardens and Lothian Road ; occupies the site of successively a Culdee cell and an ancient cruciform church ; was erected in 1775 at a cost of 4231, but afterwards acquired a steeple on its front, and contains about 3000 sittings. The Culdee cell was founded about the end of 7th century, and took name from the celebrated missionary Cuthbert ; and the subsequent church was large, had a massive tower, and figured greatly in the Romish times for wealth and influence. Ten quoad sacra parish churches, 5 chapels-of-ease, and numerous churches of nearly all denominations, are within the parish. Ten of the city's public schools also are within it, and 2 others are at respectively Coltbridge and Gorgie. The workhouse for St. Cuthbert's and Canongate stands off Queensferry Road, about 2 miles west-south-west of west end of Princes Street ; was erected about 1866-67 at a cost of about 40,000; underwent extension in 1880 at a further cost of nearly 10,000 ; and, for a structure of its class, is remark-able for fineness of both situation and feature.
CUTHILL, suburb of Prestonpans, Haddingtonshire. Pop. 529.
CUTTYFIELD, village in Larbert parish, Stirlingshire.
CYRUS (ST.), village and parish on southern border of Kincardineshire. The village stands on an eminence near the coast, 5 miles north of Montrose, and has a post office under Montrose, a railway station, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 172 scholars. The parish contains also the hamlets of Roadside, Burnside, Lochside, Whitehill, Milton, and Tangleha'. Its length is 5 miles ; its breadth 3 miles ; its area 8249 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 18,258. Pop. 1487. About one-half of the boundary is formed by North Esk river and the sea. The coast is partly flat beach and partly three low rocky promontories, but mostly steep escarpment from 50 to nearly 300 feet high ; and the interior consists of hills from 450 to 630 feet high, and deep intersecting vales and ravines. The chief seats are Lauriston, Mount Cyrus, Kirkside, and Bridgeton ; and the chief antiquities are an ancient obelisk, vestiges of a sea-girt fortalice, and remains of Lauriston Castle.
