DINGLETON, suburb of Melrose, Roxburghshire.
DINGWALL, town and parish in south-east of Ross-shire. The town stands in mouth of Strathpeffer, at head of Cromarty Firth, 18 miles north-west of Inverness ; ranks as a seaport, a royal burgh, and the capital of Ross-shire ; unites with Cromarty, Tain, Dornoch, Wick, and Kirkwall in sending a member to Parliament ; comprises a main street about J mile long, and a number of small streets and lanes ; and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 3 banking offices, 2 hotels, fine castellated County Buildings, an obeliskal monument erected by the first Earl of Cromarty, foundations and fosse of ancient castle of the Earls of Ross, handsome Established, Free, and Episcopalian churches of respectively 1801, 1869, and 1872, and 2 public schools with jointly about 326 scholars. Real property in 1880-81, exclusive of railway, 7408. Pop. 1921. The parish is nearly an oblong of about lOf square miles. Real property of landward part in 1880-81, 4993. Pop. 2220. The surface includes a skirt of Benwyvis and a part of Strathpeffer, is elsewhere diversified by hill and valley, and presents on the whole a very beautiful appearance. There are 3 schools for 445 scholars, and an enlargement of 1 of them for 150 is new.
DINGWALL, extinct ancient baronial fortalice on site of St. James square, Edinburgh.
DINGY'S HOW, ancient tumulus, 30 feet high, in St. Andrews parish, Orkney.
DINLABYRE, estate and burn, the latter with beautiful cascade, in Castleton parish, Roxburghshire.
DINNET, place, 4i miles west of Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. It has a post office under Aberdeen, a railway station, and a quoad sacra parochial church for a pop. of 311. Dinnet burn,entering the Dee in its vicinity, receives the effluence of lakes in Tullich and Logie-Coldstone parishes, and may be regarded as the boundary between the Highlands and the Lowlands of Deeside.
DINWOODIE, old chapelry, now forming northern section of Applegarth parish, Dumfriesshire. It has a railway station 6i miles north of Lockerby.
DIONARD.
DIPPEN, headland near south-eastern extremity of Arran Island, Buteshire. It lises almost vertically to the height of about 300 feet, and is leaped by a brook forming a curve of spray.
DIPPEN, seat on south-east side of West Loch Tarbert, Argyleshire.
DIPPLE, ancient parish, now included in Speymouth, Elginshire.
DIPPOOL, rivulet, running about 7 miles south-westward to the Mouse, in Lanarkshire.
DIRIE, head-stream of the Conan, in Ross-shire.
DIRLET, ancient castle, on high precipitous rock overhanging Thurso river, in Halkirk parish, Caithness.
DIRLETON, village and parish on coast of Haddingtonshire. The village stands about 1J mile from the sea, and 3 miles south-west-by-west of North Berwick ; occupies the sides of a large triangular green ; comprises neat modern cottages with garden plots on two sides, and massive ruins of Dirleton Castle on the third side ; and has a post office under Drem, a railway station, a fine bowling-green, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 121 scholars. Pop. 343. The castle was built in the 12th century by the family of Vaux ; made strong resistance to the English in 1298, but was taken and held by them till 1306 ; passed afterwards to the Halyburtons, and gave them the peerage title of Lords Dirleton, a title now held by the Earl of Mar ; was captured and dismantled by Cromwell ; and is noticed by Sir Walter Scott in his Border Antiquities. The parish contains also the villages of Gulane, Kingston, and Fenton, and is 5J miles long and 4 miles broad. Acres, 9146. Real property in 1880-81, 16,955. Pop. 1506. The surface, though diversified by two low parallel ridges, looks to be flat ; and includes, be-tween Dirleton village and the sea, a tract long famous as a remarkably fine coursing-field. The chief residence is Archerfield, and the chief antiquity, besides Dirleton Castle, is the ruined church of Gulane.
DIRRINGTONS, two conical hills, Great and Little, in Longformacus parish, Berwickshire.
DIRU, lake and offset of Benloyal in Tongue parish, Sutherland.
DISBLAIR, estate, with mansion and public school, in Fintray parish, Aberdeenshire.
DISTINCTHORN, mountain, 1258 feet high, 6 miles east-south-east of Galston, eastern border of Ayrshire. It commands a magnificent view.
DIVACH, affluent of the Coiltie in Urquhart parish, Inverness-shire. It makes a profound waterfall, equal in picturesqueness to the Fall of Foyers.
DIVIE, picturesque rivulet, rising on Brae Moray, and running about 10 miles north-westward to the Findhorn, in Elginshire.
DOCHART, lake and river in Killin parish, Perthshire. The lake lies in the head of Glendochart, receives the rivulet Fillan from Strathfillan, is overhung on the _ south by Benmore, measures about 3 miles in length, and contains a floating islet. The river issues from the lake, runs about 10 miles east-north-eastward along the rest of Glendochart, and unites with the Lochy to fall into Loch Tay at Killin village.
