ARBUTHNOT, parish midway between Fordoun and Bervie, Kincardineshire. It has a post office under Fordoun. Its length is 5 miles ; its area 9585 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 9767. Pop. 809. The surface is a very diversified assemblage of vale and hill, and rises nowhere higher than about 650 feet. The mansions are Arbuthnot House and Kair, and the former is the seat of Viscount Arbuthnot. The public school has room for 109 scholars.
ARCHAIC, lake in Glenarchaig, Inverness-shire. It measures about 10 miles in length and about f mile in mean breadth, and reaches to vicinity of Great Glen ; it describes, from head to foot, the segment of a circle, it is overhung by lofty peaked mountains, and it has a wooded islet containing the burial-place of the Lochiel family.
ARCHERBECK, burn, running to the Liddel, in Canonbie parish, Dumfriesshire.
ARCHERFIELD, seat in Dirleton parish, Haddingtonshire.
ARCHIESTON, village in Knockando parish, Elginshire. It has a post office under Craigellachie. Pop. 375.
ARCLET, gloomy small lake on north-west border of Stirlingshire, between Inversnaid and Loch Katrine.
ARD, lake on south-west verge of Perthshire, skirted by road from Aberfoyle to Inversnaid. It is divided by a gorge into two lakes, larger and smaller ; it measures about 4 miles in length, and from 3 to 9 furlongs in breadth ; it shares much of the grandest mountain scenery of Lochs Katrine and Lomond ; it presents views ranging from the beautiful to the sublime ; it contains an islet crowned with a ruined castle of Murdoch, Duke of Albany ; and it has on its shores a number of ornate residences.
ARDALANISH, headland near south-west extremity of Mull Island, Argyleshire.
ARDALLIE, quoad sacra parish in north-east of Aberdeenshire. It comprises parts >f Cruden, Ellon, Longside, and Old Deer. It has a public school with about 130 scholars, and its post town is Mintlaw Pop. iLT.s.
ARDARGIE, estate, with well-preserved small Roman camp, in Forgandenny parish, Perthshire.
ARDARUNAR, headland on west coast of North Uifit, Outer Hebrides.
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ARDBEG, headland, forming west horn of Rothesay Bay, Bute Island.
ARDBLAIR, lake and old seat in Blairgowrie parish, Perthshire.
ARDCARNICH, place, 5 miles south-south-east of Ullapool, Ross-shire.
ARDCHADUILL, promontory in Lochbroom parish, Ross-shire.
ARDCHATTAN, parish in Lorn district, Argyleshire. It is bisected by Loch Etive, comprises Ardchattan proper on the north, and Muckairn on the south, includes Eriska and Duirnish Islands, is traversed by the Callander and Oban Railway, and its post town is Taynuilt, under Oban. It measures more than 40 miles in length and about 10 miles in mean breadth. Real property in 1880-81, 15,191. Pop., quoad civilia, 2001; quoad sacra, 1386. Ardchattan proper is remarkably mountainous, and consists very largely of rugged alpine masses, and great wastes of moor and moss, yet includes charming varieties of fertile plain, pleasant valley, and wooded hill. Muckairn contains some lofty ground, yet is comparatively low. Ardchattan Priory, on Loch Etive, 4 miles north-west of Taynuilt, was founded in 1231, is notable for a national council held in it by Robert Bruce, had a cruciform church with central tower, and has left some interesting re-mains. Ardchattan House, originally the prior's residence, is now a modernized massive mansion. Other seats are Lochnell, Barcaldine, Inverawe, and Drimvuick, and a notable antiquity is the alleged vestige of the Dalriadan city Berigonium. The churches are 2 Established and 2 Free, and the public schools are 4, with about 279 scholars.
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ARDCLACH, hamlet and parish in Nairnshire. The hamlet lies on Findhorn river, 9 miles south-south-east of Nairn, and has a post office under Forres. The parish measures about 11 miles by 7J. Real property in 1880-81, 6812. Pop. 1117. The surface is sub-alpine, but includes low tracts on the Findhorn. Coulmony House is the only mansion ; and a sculptured obelisk, similar to the Forres pillar, is the chief antiquity. The churches are Established and Free. There are 4 schools for 233 scholars, and one of them, for 50, is new.
ARDEER, town, with extensive iron-works, suburban to Stevenston, Ayrshire. Pop. included in Stevenston.
ARDELISTER, islets in Kildalton parish, Islay, Argyleshire.
ARDELVE, hamlet in Lochbroom parish, Ross-shire. It has a post office under Lochalsh, and a public school.
ARDEN, suburb of Airdrie, Lanarkshire. Pop. 294.
ARDEN, seat of Sir James Lumsden, on Loch Lomond, 1\ miles north-north-west of Dumbarton.
ARDENADAM, village on Holy Loch, near Dunoon, Argyleshire.
