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DUNLOP-PLACE, village in Dalserf parish, Lanarkshire. Pop. ,with Red Row,327. DUNLUGA8, estate, with mansion and public school, in Alvah parish, Banffshire.

DUNLUSKIN, hill and lake near Dunoon, Argyleshire.

DUNMACSNIACHAN, site of alleged Dalriadan city of Berigonium on coast of Ardchattan parish, Argyleshire.

DUNMAGLASS, detached section of Nairnshire, about 16 square miles in area, encompassed by Dunlichity old parish, in Inverness-shire.

DUNMAN, rocky hill, with vestiges of ancient Caledonian fort, on coast of Kirkmaiden parish, Wigtonshire.

DUNMORE, village and mansion in Airth parish, Stirlingshire. The village stands on the Forth, S miles east-south-east of Stirling, and has a post office with telegraph under Stirling, a small harbour, and an Episcopalian chapel. The mansion is the seat of the Earl of Dunmore, is an elegant Gothic edifice, and has a well-wooded park.

DUNMORE, seat on north-west side of West Loch Tarbert, Argyleshire.

DUNMORE, hill, crowned by granite obelisk, 72 feet high, to the memory of Lord Melville, 1J mile north of Comrie, Perthshire.

DUNMORE, hill in Monzie parish, Perthshire.

DUN (MUIR OF), hamlet in Dun parish, Forfarshire.

DUNMULLIE, place, with vestiges of mediaeval castle, in Duthil parish, Inverness-shire.

DUNMYAT, precipitous hill in north front of the Ochils, 4 miles north-east of Stirling. It looks like a huge buttress, rises to a height of 1375 feet above sea-level, and commands one of the most magnificent views in Great Britain.

DUNN, hamlet in Watten parish, Caithness. It has a public school with about 72 scholars.

DUNNAGU, mountain, 2505 feet high, 6 miles west of Duart, in Mull Island, Argyleshire.

DUNNECHTAN.

DUNNET, village and parish on north coast of Caithness. The village stands 9 miles east by north of Thurso, and has a post office under Thurso, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 53 scholars. The parish measures 12 miles in length, and 6 miles in greatest breadth. Real property in 1880-81, 6238. Pop. 1607. Dunnet Bay is partly on the north-western border, ex-tends westward at the mouth to HolburnHead, and has a total length of about 5i miles, with mean breadth of about 2f miles. Dunnet promontory extends north-ward from upper part of east side of the bay, is 3J miles long, and averagely 2^ miles broad, and presents all round to the sea a broken rocky face from 100 to 400 feet high. Dunnet Head terminates that promontory, is the most northerly ground of the Scottish mainland, and is crowned with a lighthouse, showing a fixed light visible at the distance of 23 nautical miles. The coast eastward of the promontory is straight, low, and rocky, and about 2J miles long, and has small harbours at Brough and Ham. All the interior, excepting the promontory, has a slightly irregular surface, not far from level, with average elevation of about 150 feet. Chief objects of interest are quarries, 10 small lakes, numerous tumuli and Picts' houses, and vestiges of 3 Romish chapels. Public schools are at Ratter, Greenland, and 'Barrock.

DUNNICHEN, village and parish in south centre of Forfarshire. The village stands 4 miles east-south-east of Forf ar, and contains the parochial church. The parish contains 4 other small villages, and most of the large post office village of Letham. Its length is about 5 miles ; its breadth about 3| miles ; its area, 4917 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 8909. Pop. 1422. The surface consists mostly of gently sloping reaches, and rises at its highest point to about 720 feet above sea-level. Dunnichen Hill, on the northern boundary, includes the highest point, is about 3 miles long, and was originally called Dunnechtan, from a resident Pictish chieftain. A chief residence is Dunnichen House, and a chief antiquity is the field of a battle in 7th century between the Picts and the Northumbrian Saxons. A Free church and a Congregational chapel are in Letham. 2 schools for 290 scholars are in the parish, and one of them and an enlargement for 234 are new.

DUNNIDEER, isolated hill, with vitrified fort and remnant of ancient castle, in Insch parish, Aberdeenshire.

DUNNIKIER, old part of Pathhead suburb of Kirkcaldy, Fife. It has a Free church, and it adjoins an estate of its own name with mansion and collieries.

DUNNIKIER, hill, with extensive view, in Kilconquhar parish, Fife.

DUNNINALD, old parish, with clean, hill, and modern mansion of its own name now in Craig, adjacent to Montrose, Forfarshire.

DUNNING, town and parish on south-east border of Perthshire. The town stands 1 mile south-east of a railway station of its own name, and 9 miles south-west of Perth ; includes the suburb of Newton of Pitcairns ; presents a pleasant appearance; and has a post office with money order and telegraph, departments under Perth, a banking office, Established, Free, and United Presbyterian churches, and 3 public schools. Pop. 813. The parish is about 7 miles long and 4 miles broad, and comprises 14,855 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 13,870. Pop. 1635. About one-third of the surface lies among the Ochils, and the rest slopes to the Earn. Duncruib, the seat of Lord Rollo, is the chief mansion ; and other seats are Pitcairns and Garvock.


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