DAMSAY, beautiful islet in Firth Bay, Firth parish, Orkney.
DAMSIDE, place, with leech-ponds, in Auchterarder parish, Perthshire.
DANDALEITH, railway station and fine haugh on the Spey in Rothes parish, Elginshire.
DANESHELT.
DANEVALE, seat in Crossmichael parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
DANNA, island in North Knapdale parish, Argyleshire. Pop. 40.
DANSKINE, place, 5 miles south-east-by-south of Haddington.
DARA, rivulet, running about 10 miles south-westward and 3 miles north-west-ward to the Deveron, near Turriff, Aberdeenshire.
DARDAR, dell, with cascade, on coast of Aberdour parish, Aberdeenshire.
DARGAVEL, seat in Erskine parish, Renfrewshire.
DARGIE, village about 3 miles west of Dundee.
DARK-MILE, glen between Loch Archaig and Loch Lochy, Inverness-shire. Its character is very similar to that of the Trossachs, but with larger and more striking features.
DARLEITH, estate in Bonhill parish, Dumbartonshire.
DARLINGSHAUGH, suburb and section of Galashiels at verge of Roxburghshire.
DARLINGTON, suburb of Stewarton, Ayrshire.
DARMEAD, head-stream of the Breich, in Cambusnethan parish, Lanarkshire.
DARNAWAY, hamlet and noble mansion on west border of Elginshire. The hamlet lies about 3 miles south-west of Forres, and has a post office under Forres. The mansion, Darnaway Castle, is a seat of the Earl of Moray, and is partly ancient, but chiefly modern.
DARNGABER, village and vestige of ancient castle on south-east side of Hamilton parish, Lanarkshire. Pop. with Quarter, 886.
DARNHALL, a seat of Lord Elibank, near Eddlestone village, Peeblesshire.
DARNICK, village on eastern verge of Abbotsford estate, about a mile west of Melrose, Roxburghshire. It has a post office under Melrose ; contains a massive tower of 15th century, now furnished as a museum of Border antiquities ; and gave to Sir "Walter Scott, among many of his familiar friends, the soubriquet of 'Duke of Darnick.' Pop. 448.
DARNLEY, ancient barony, 2 miles south-west of Pollockshaws, Renfrewshire. It belonged for ages to a branch of the Stewarts ; gave them the peerage title of lord, so prominent in history as borne by the husband of Queen Mary ; and was sold about 1757 to Sir John Maxwell of Pollock.
DARNOW, place, with public school, in Kirkcowan parish, Wigtonshire.
DAROCHVILLE, seat in Inverness parish, Inverness-shire.
DARRA, hill in Turriff parish, Aberdeenshire.
DARRACH, hill on western verge of Denny parish, Stirlingshire.
DARUEL, rivulet, traversing Glendaruel to head of Loch Striven, in Argyleshire.
DARVEL, town on Irvine river, 9 miles east-by-north of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. It has a post office under Kilmarnock, a banking office, an ancient f ortalice, a Free church, and a public school with about 130 scholars. Pop. 1700.
DAVA, place, 8^ miles north of Grantown, Elginshire. It has a post office under Grantown and a railway station.
DAVAR.
DAVEN, lake in Logie-Coldstone parish, Aberdeenshire.
DAVID.
DAVIDSON'S MAINS (popularly MUTTONHOLE), village, 3J miles west-north-west of Edinburgh. It has a post office with all departments, designated of Mid-lothian, and a Free church. Pop. 744.
DAVID (ST.), parish, with church at head of Candlerigg street, Glasgow. Pop., quoad sacra, 9157.
DAVID (ST.), quoad sacra parish, with Established and Free churches, in west of Edinburgh. Pop. 9456.
DAVID (ST.), quoad sacra parish, with Established and Free churches, in Dundee. Pop. 25,975.
DAVID (ST.), quoad sacra parish, with Established and Free churches, in Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire. Pop. 3786.
DAVID'S (ST.), seaport village, 2 miles east of Inverkeithing, Fife.
DAVID'S (ST)., village in Madderty parish, Perthshire.
DAVINGTON, place in Eskdalemuir parish, Dumfriesshire. It has a public school with about 43 scholars.
DAVIOT (popularly DAVID), village and parish in Garioch district, Aberdeenshire. The village stands 9 miles north-west of Aberdeen, and has a post office under Aberdeen, a parochial church, and a public school. The parish is about 3 miles long, and comprises 4454 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 5532. Pop., quoad civilia, 515; quoad sacra, 658. A gently undulated ridge extends through the middle from nearly end to end, and two similar but shorter and lower ridges extend along the sides. The chief residence is Fingask; and the chief antiquities are remains of two ancient Caledonian stone circles.
DAVIOT, hamlet in Inverness-shire, and parish partly also in Nairnshire. The ham-let lies on river Nairn, 6J miles south-east of Inverness, and has a post office under Inverness, an Established church, a Free church, and a public school. The parish is about 23 miles long, and from scarcely 1J to 5J miles broad, but includes only 388 acres in Nairnshire. Real property in 1880-81, of the Inverness-shire part, 11,561; of the Nairnshire part, 1466. Pop. 1133 and 119. The surface includes portions of Drummossie Moor and the Monadhleagh Mountains, but consists, for more than nine-tenths of its entire area, of the greater part of Strathnairn valley ; and it presents, in the aggregate, a wild and striking appearance. The chief residences are Daviot House and Farr; and the chief antiquities are remains of an ancient castle and of several ancient Caledonian stone circles. Dunlichity old parish is united to Daviot, and its church stands 7 miles west of Daviot hamlet, and is still in use. 5 schools for 400 scholars are within the united parish, and 3 of them for 220 are new.
