DALMAHOY, noble mansion and craggy hill in Ratho parish, Edinburghshire. The mansion stands near Caledonian Railway, 2i miles north-east of Kirknewton, is a seat of the Earl of Morton, and has an Episcopalian chapel and a very fine park. The hill is 680 feet high, presents a precipitous front to the west, and figures prominently in a great extent of landscape.
DALMALLY, village on Orchy river, 3 miles from Loch Awe, and 16 miles north-north-east of Inverary, Argyleshire. It has picturesque environs ; is a resort of anglers, a centre for tourists, and a good starting-point for ascending Bencruachan ; and has a head post office with money order and telegraph departments, a railway station, a hotel, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 90 scholars.
DALMARNOCK, suburban locality, on the Clyde, in south-eastern outskirts of Glasgow. It has a United Presbyterian church of 1881.
DALMARNOCK, village, 3 miles north-by-west of Dunkeld, Perthshire.
DALMELLINGTON, town and parish in Kyle district, Ayrshire. The town stands near the Doon, 15 miles south-east of Ayr ; dates from llth century, but rose into modern importance as a centre of mineral traffic ; and has a post office with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Ayrshire, a terminal railway station, a banking office, waterworks of 1876, a towered Saxon parochial church of 1846, Free, Evangelical Union, and Roman Catholic churches, and a public school with about 200 scholars. Pop. 1437. The parish contains also the towns of Burnfoothill and Waterside, the village of Craigmark, and part of the village of Patna. Its length is nearly 9 miles ; its greatest breadth about 4 miles ; its area 17,783 acres. Real property in 1879-80, 20,446. Pop., quoad civilia, 6383 ; quoad sacra, 6170. Doon lake and river form the boundary with Carrick. The ground traversed by the river, for about a mile from the lake, is a ravine so very deep and narrow as to appear like a rent torn through a lofty hill-ridge by a vertical earthquake. A tract adjacent to the river, for about 3 miles farther on, is a plain or very slight slope, beginning and ending with a mere point, measuring about a mile in breadth at its middle, and shaped altogether in nearly the form of a crescent. The rest of the surface, away to the eastern boundaries, is a series of hill-ridges and mountains with intervening glens and gorges ; and the front ridge terminates, to the north-east of the town, in a basaltic colonnade about 300 feet high and 600 feet long. Coal, lime-stone, and ironstone are plentiful; and extensive ironworks, commenced in 1847, give employing it to a large proportion of the inhabitants. The chief seat is Berbeth ; and chief antiquities are traces of a Roman road, the moated site of an ancient castle, and spots associated with affecting scenes in the persecutions of the Cove-nanters. Established and United Presbyterian churches are at Patna. There are 4 schools for 1297 scholars, and 1 of them for 300 is new.
DALMENY, village and parish in north-east of Linlithgowshire. The village stands about f mile from the Forth, and 12 miles west-north-west of Edinburgh, is a small Elace, and has a post office under Edin-urgh, a railway station, a richly-sculptured ancient Norman parochial church, and a public school with about 137 scholars. The parish contains also part of Queensferry town, surrounds Queen sferry parish, and consists of a main body and a detached district. The main body is 5J miles long, and nearly 3 miles broad ; the detached district lies about a mile from it to the west of Winchburgh, and measures about If mile by 7 furlongs ; and the whole comprises 5985 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 17,273. Pop. 1660. The surface is mostly undulating, includes 3 eminences averagely about 380 feet high, and exhibits uncommon beauty of both natural and artificial feature. Dalmeny Park, the chief seat of the Earl of Rosebery, has a splendid mansion and exquisite grounds, and was visited by Queen Victoria. Dundas Castle and Craigie Hall also are interesting seats, and Barnbougle Castle is a palatial structure of 1880-81, with small remnant of ancient, picturesque ruin.
DALMIGAVIE, estate with romantic dell, in Moy parish, Inverness-shire.
DALMONACH, place, with print-fields, near Bonhill, Dumbartonshire.
DALMONY, valley in Urquhart parish, Inverness-shire.
DALMORE, place in Alva parish, Stirlingshire. It has a public school with about 155 scholars.
DALMORE, harbour in Rosskeen parish, Ross-shire.
DALMUIR, village, 6J miles east-south-east of Dumbarton. It has a post office under Glasgow, a railway station, extensive paper-works, and a public school with about 75 scholars. Pop. 936.
DALMUIR-SHORE, quondam village on the Clyde, ^ mile from Dalmuir, Dumbartonshire. It had an unsightly appearance, and was destroyed about 1860.
DALMULLIN, place, with site of ancient monastery, in St. Quivox parish, Ayrshire.
DALNACARDOCH, place, 11 miles west-north-west of Blair-Athole, Perthshire. It had long a well-known inn, important to travellers through the Grampians on the road from Perth to Inverness ; and it still commands a road southward from it to Tummel-Bridge.
DALNASPIDAL, railway station, 2 miles south of watershed of Central Grampians, and about 5 miles north-west of Dalnacardoch, Perthshire.
