GALLOWGATE, long, crooked, leading old street in eastern part of Glasgow. It underwent great change in course of re-cent city improvement and railway construction ; and it has a sub post office with money order department, and a railway station.
GALLOWHILL, each of at least 30 places, formerly scenes of capital punishment, in various parts of Scotland.
GALLOWKNOW, each of several places, formerly scenes of capital punishment, in various parts of Scotland.
GALLOWLANE, small head-stream of Boon river, Ayrshire.
GALLOWLAW, hamlet in Panbride parish, Forfarshire.
GALLOWSIDE, hillock, formerly a place of capital punishment, in Coldingham parish, Berwickshire.
GALLOWSLOT, rising ground, formerly a place of capital punishment, near Castle-Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire.
GALSTON, town and parish in north-east corner of Kyle, Ayrshire. The town stands on Irvine river, 5| miles east of Kilmarnock ; borrows amenity from neighbourhood of ' Loudoun's bonny woods and wraes ; ' and has a post office with all epartments under Kilmarnock, a rail-way station, 2 banking offices, Established, Free, United Presbyterian, and Evangelical Union churches, and 3 public schools. Pop. 4085. The parish excludes a suburb on Loudoun side of the river, but includes the Greenholm part of Newmilns and small part of Darvel. Its length is 12-| miles ; its greatest breadth 4 miles ; its area 15,243 acres. Real property in 1879-80, 32,598. Pop., quoad civilia, 5961; quoad sacra, 5768. The surface is mostly level, but rises in the east to upland height, and culminates there in the lofty Distincthorn. About two-thirds are arable, and the rest is variously forest, moss, and hill pasture. Coal is largely worked, and limestone and flagstone have been quarried. Chief antiquities are traces of an extensive Roman camp, and the site of a Caledonian stone circle. There are 4 schools for 852 scholars, and class-rooms in them for 400 are new.
GALT, headland at north-west extremity of Shapinshay, in Orkney.
GALTRIGIL, bold precipitous headland, fully 300 feet high, at north-west extremity of Isle of Skye.
GALTWAY, ancient parish, now forming central part of Kirkcudbright parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
GALVAL, remains of ancient castle on fine eminence in Boharm parish, Banff shire.
GAMESCLEUCH, vestige of ancient baronial tower in Ettrick parish, Selkirkshire.
GAMESHOPE, lake and burn in south of Tweedsmuir parish, Peeblesshire.
GAMHAIR.
GAMHUINN, lake in Rothiemurchus parish, Inverness-shire.
GAMRIE, parish, containing Macduff town, and Gardenstown and Crovie villages, on coast of Banffshire. It connects but slightly with the main body of the county, measures 9| miles by 3, and comprises 17,041 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 20,334. Pop., quoad civilia; 6747; quoad sacra, 2643. The coast measures 9J miles ; is mostly precipitous and partly mural; rises in some parts to heights of from 400 to 600 feet ; is cloven in several places by great chasms; and includes the long impressive caverns called Hell's Lum and Needle's Eye. The interior abounds in hills, dells, cliffs, ravines, and romantic scenery ; and, to a great extent, has been laboriously reclaimed from barrenness to fertility. A chief residence is Troup, and chief antiquities are traces of victories over the Scandinavians. The parochial church stands in the east, a quoad sacra parochial church and a Free church are at Macduff, and a chapel-of-ease and a United Presbyterian church are at Gardenstown. There are 5 schools for 1540 scholars, and 2 of them and enlargements for 1048 are new.
GANNACHY, ancient bridge on the North Esk, between Edzell in Forfarshire and Fettercairn in Kincardineshire.
GANUH, lake in Kildonan parish, Sutherland.
GARAN, site of Muirkirk town, and originally that town itself, in Ayrshire.
GARAN, islet, crowded with sea-fowl, 4 miles east of Cape Wrath, in Sutherland.
GARAWALT, impetuous burn, entering right side of the Dee, 2 miles east of Invercauld Bridge, Aberdeenshire. It makes several cataracts and falls, one of the latter very picturesque.
GARBETHILL, village, 3 miles east of Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire.
GARBHMEAL, alpine mountain in Fortingal parish, Perthshire.
GARBHREACHD, lake in Kiltarlity parish, Inverness-shire.
GARBHREISA, islet, faced with cliffs, south-west of Craignish Point, Argyleshire.
GARCHONZIE, wood where a sanguinary clan fight occurred, between Callander and Loch Vennachoir, Perthshire.
GARDEN, seat in Kippen parish, Stir-
GARDENSTOWN, fishing village, 8 miles east-north-east of Banff. It has a post office under Banff, a banking office, a tolerable harbour, a chapel-of-ease, a United Presbyterian church, and a public school with about 70 scholars. Pop. 866.
GARDERHOUSE, post office under Lerwick, and seat, in Sandsting parish, Shetland.
GARDYNE, fine old baronial seat in Kirkden parish, Forfarshire.
GARE, mineral field in Carluke parish, Lanarkshire.
