DAAL.
DAAN, rivulet in Eddertoun parish, Koss-shire. Two low tracts contiguous to it are named Meikle Daal and Little
DAER, longest head-stream of the Clyde. It rises on Queensberry Hill, and runs about 10 miles northward to the Little Clyde, near Elvanfoot ; and it gives the peerage title of baron to the Earl of Selkirk.
DAIGLEN, burn in Tillicoultry parish, Clackmannanshire.
DAIL, seat in Craignish parish, Argyleshire.
DAILLY, village and parish in Camck district, Ayrshire. The village stands on Girvan river, 5J miles north-east of Girvan, presents a neat appearance, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Maybole, a railway station, an inn, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 125 scholars. Pop. 696. The parish is nearly 7 miles long, and from 4 to 6 miles broad, but includes also Ailsa-Craig, and comprises 17,962 acres. Eeal property in 1880-81, 19,078. Pop. 2226. The surface is traversed from end to end by Girvan river, and consists partly of fertile valley and partly of considerably high flanking hills. Coal and limestone are worked. The seats are Bargany, Kilkerran, Dalquharran, Penkill, and Killochan ; and the antiquities are an oval camp, vestiges of an ancient church, and ruins of Kilkerran and Penkill Castles. A new parochial church, in lieu of the old one, was projected in September 1881. There are 6 schools for 596 scholars, and 1 of them for 75 is new.
DAILNANCEANN, battlefield between the Danes and the natives, with 2 cairns, in Craignish parish, Argyleshire.
DAIRSIE, village and parish in north-east of Fife. The village stands 3| miles east-north-east of Cupar, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Cupar, a railway station, a fine old Gothic parochial church, a Free church, and a public school with about 152 scholars. The parish is 3 miles long and 2 miles broad, and comprises 2555 acres. Heal property in 1880-81, 6522. Pop. 693. The surface is mostly an inclined plain, but includes two hills, cultivated nearly to their summits, and commanding extensive views. The seats are Craigfoodie, Pitormie, Newmill, and Dairsie Cottage ; and the chief antiquity is the roofless ruin of Dairsie Castle, said to have been the place where Archbishop Spottiswood wrote his Church History.
DAL, salmon stream entering Balnakiel Bay, in Durness parish, Sutherland.
DALARNAN, place within Campbelton burgh, Argyleshire. It has a public school with about 167 scholars.
DALAROSSIE, old parish, now united to Moy, in Inverness-shire.
DALARRAN, supposed battlefield, with huge standing-stone, in Balmaclellan parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
DALAVICH, ancient parish, now united to Kilchrenan, Argyleshire. It contains Loch Avich, and has a public school.
DALAWOODIE, seat near Holywood, Dumfriesshire.
DALBEATTIE, town and quoad sacra parish in Kirkcudbrightshire. The town stands on a burn of its own name, near Urr river, 5 miles east-south-east of Castle-Douglas ; was founded in 1780, and advanced rapidly to prosperity ; is built of lively-coloured granite, and exports quantities of that stone ; and has a head post office with money order and telegraph departments, a railway station, a banking office, 2 chief inns, a small harbour, various manufacturing establishments, a town hall, an Established church of 1880, a Free church founded in 1881, United Presbyterian, Evangelical Union, Episcopalian, and Roman Catholic churches, a Mechanics' Institute, and 3 public schools with about 518 scholars. Dalbeattie Loch, about 1^ mile from the town, has great store of darkish-coloured trout. Pop. of the town, 3854 ; of the quoad sacra parish, 4140.
DALBETH, seat and Roman Catholic convent on the Clyde, in eastern environs of Glasgow.
DALBLAIR, place in glen between Wardlaw Hill and Cairntable, Ayrshire.
DALBOG, place, with remnant of ancient Caledonian stone circle, in Edzell parish, Forfarshire.
DALCHALLIE, glen in Glenisla parish, Forfarshire.
DALCHONZIE,seat on the Earn in Comrie parish, Perthshire.
DALCHOSNIE, seat, and scene of a victory of King Robert Bruce over the English, in Fortingal parish, Perthshire.
DALCHREICHARD, place in Urquhart parish, Inverness-shire. It has a public school with about 45 scholars.
DALCROSS, old parish, now united to Croy, Inverness-shire. It has a railway station, an estate, and a decayed castle of its own name ; and its castle was built in 1620 by the eighth Lord Lovat, and sold in 1702 to the head branch of the Mackintosh family.
DALCRUIVE, place, with handsome modern bridge, on the Almond, in Eed-gorton parish, Perthshire.
DALDAWN, seat in Kelton parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
DALGAIN, estate in Sorn parish, Ayrshire. The parish itself was formerly called Dalgain.
DALGAIRN, seat near Cupar, Fife.
DALGARNO, old parish, now united to Closeburn, Dumfriesshire.
