BARNSDALE, extinct ancient castle in Rescobie parish, Forfarshire.
BARNS (EAST), village, 2f miles south-east of Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. It has a public school with about 115 scholars.
BARNSHEAN, lake, 5 miles east-north-east of Maybole, Ayrshire.
BARNS (WEST), village, 2 miles west of Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. It has a post office under Dunbar, and a public school with about 162 scholars. Pop. 529.
BARNTALLOCH, extinct old castle in Langholm parish, Dumfriesshire.
BARNTON, seat in Cramond parish, Edinburghshire.
BARNWELL, old parish, divided between Craigie and Tarbolton. Ayrshire.
BARNYARDS, village in Kilconquhar parish, Fife. Pop. 350.
BAROCHAN, seat in Houston parish, Renfrewshire.
BARONALD, seat near Lanark.
BARONY, parish, comprising large portion of city and suburbs of Glasgow. It was constituted a separate parish in 1595, and it is now divided into numerous quoad sacra parishes. Acres, 1789. Real property of landward part in!880-81, 151,416. Pop., quoad civilia, 236,622 ; quoad sacra, 6590. The parochial church stands near the Cathedral, was built in 1801, and is a spacious but tasteless and towerless structure. The Barony Free church stands a little west of that, and is a recent Norman edifice with lofty tower. Most of the public schools are within the city ; the parochial poorhouse is in Barnhill suburb ; and the parochial lunatic asylum is at AYoodielee, near Lenzie.
BARONY, headland between Mull Sound and Loch Linnhe, Argyleshire.
BARR, village and parish in south-east of Carrick, Ayrshire. The village stands on Stinchar river, 7 miles east-south-east of Girvan, and has a post office under Girvan, a railway station, a parochial church, a Free church, and a public school with about 81 scholars. The parish measures about 20 miles by 8, and com-prises 54,876 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 15,104. Pop. 600. Most of the surface is either hilly, moorish, or mountainous ; and the arable land is only about 1200 acres. There are 3 public schools for 148 scholars.
BARR, place in Galston parish, Ayrshire. It has a public school with about 244 scholars.
BARR, glen in Killean parish, Kintyre, Argyleshire.
BARR, estate, with roofless old castle, in Lochwinnoch parish, Renfrewshire.
BARR, hill in St. Mungo parish, Dumfriesshire.
BARRA, island and parish in south end of Outer Hebrides. The island lies about 45 miles south-south-west of Lochmaddy ; measures 9 miles in length and 5miles in breadth ; is screened along the west by vast, cavernous, shattered rocks ; rises into roundish pastoral hills ; belonged for many ages to the Macneils ; contains the modern mansion of Barra Castle ; and has a post office under Lochmaddy, a parochial church, a Roman Catholic chapel, and a public school with about 56 scholars. Pop. 1864. The parish includes 8 other inhabited islands, and upwards of 12 xininhabited ones ; and it measures about 26 miles in length, and terminates at Barrahead. Real property in 1880-81, 2098. Pop. 2161.
BARRA, hill in Bourtie parish, Aberdeenshire.
BARRAHEAD, headland at southern extremity of Outer Hebrides. A light-house was erected on it in 1833, and shows an intermittent light visible at the distance of 32 nautical miles.
BARRAS, suburb of Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire.
BARRAS, section of Kinneff parish, Kincardineshire.
BARREL OF BUTTER, small skerry in Orphir parish, Orkney.
BARRHEAD, town and quoad sacra parish in east of Renfrewshire. The town stands on Levern river, 6| miles south-west of Glasgow, is a prosperous seat of manufacture, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Glasgow, a railway station, 2 banking offices, a public hall, Established, Free, United Presbyterian, Evangelical Union, and Roman Catholic churches, and 2 public schools. All the churches are modern, 1 of the schools is recent, and the number of scholars is about 624. Pop. of the town, 9429 ; of the parish, 6728.
BARRHILL, village on Dusk rivulet, in centre of Colmonell parish, Ayrshire. It has a post office, with money order department, under Girvan, a railway station, a banking office, a Free church, and a public school with about 101 scholars.
BARRIE.
BARRISDALE, seat in Glenelg parish, Inverness-shire.
BARRMILL, village in Beith parish, Ayrshire. It has a station on branch rail-way, and a public school with about 95 scholars. Pop. 279.
BARROCH, seat of Sir John R. G. Sinclair, Bart., 10 miles north-north-west of Wick, Caithness.
BARROGILL, seat of the Earl of Caithness, on north coast of Canisbay parish, Caithness.
BARROWFIELD, eastern suburb of Glasgow, on quondam Borough Moor, where Regent Moray's army encamped on eve of battle of Langside. It has a quoad sacra parish church, and a Free church. Pop. of the qiioad sacra parish, 8087.
BARRSCHOL, section of Rogart parish, Sutherland.
BARRY, village and parish in south-east extremity of Forfarshire. The village stands 9 miles east-north-east of Dundee, and has a railway station, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 91 scholars. The parish contains also most of the post town of Carnoustie, and is about 4 miles long and 3 miles broad. Acres, 5328. Real property in 1880-81, 16,596. Pop., quoad civilia, 3233; quoad sacra, 1229. The coast is flat and sandy, and includes Buddonness at entrance of the Firth of Tay. The interior commences with a verdant bank, and forms a fertile flat, elevated about 50 feet above the coast. Churches and a public school are in Carnoustie.
