PITTULLIE, fishing village and ruined old baronial castle, 3 miles west of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. Pop. 277.
PLADDA, small low green island near south-eastern extremity of Arran, in Firth of Clyde. A lighthouse is on it with two fixed lights, the one above the other, visible at the distance of 14 and 17 nautical miles. Pop. 17.
PLAIDY, railway station and estate, 4J miles north of Turriff, Aberdeenshire.
PLAINS, village in New Monkland parish, Lanarkshire. Pop. 516.
PLANTATION, south-western suburb of Glasgow, on the Clyde, above Govan. It has a quoad sacra parochial church, and a United Presbyterian church. Pop. of the quoad sacra parish, 11,519.
PLATANE, quondam forest, extending from Finhaven Castle to Kirriemuir, in Forfarshire.
PLATT, hill, with site of ancient camp, and with extensive view, in Ratho parish, Edinburghshire.
PLEAN, village and quoad sacra parish in Stirlingshire. The village stands 5 miles south-east of Stirling, and has a post office under Stirling, a large hospital for old men, an Established church, and 2 public schools with about 218 scholars. Pop. 369. The parish contains a ruined, thick-walled old tower, extensive collieries, and the camping-ground of Prince Charles Edward prior to the battle of Falkirk. Pop. 1037.
PLEASANCE, old suburb in south-east of Old Town of Edinburgh. It contained a nunnery of St. Mary of Placentia, and got its name from corruption of the word Placentia.
PLEASANCE, village in Dalserf parish, Lanarkshire.
PLENDERLEATH, place, with ruined old chapel, in Oxnam parish, Roxburghshire.
PLOCKTON, village and quoad sacra parish on south-west coast of Ross-shire. The village stands on the south side of Loch Carron, 5 miles west-south-west of Strome Ferry, and has a post office under Strome-Ferry, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 126 scholars. Pop. 440.
PLODDA, fine cascade on Deaothack rivulet,inKiltarlity parish, Inverness-shire.
PLORA, burn, running northward from Minchmoor to the Tweed, in Peeblesshire.
PLOTCOCK, colliery in Hamilton parish, Lanarkshire.
PLUNTON, picturesquely-situated ruined old castle in Borgue parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
PLUSCARDINE, place, with ruined abbey of 13fch century, in pleasant vale 5 miles south-west of Elgin. It has a post office under Elgin and a Free church. The abbey resembles that of Melrose, but is smaller and plainer ; its chapter-house resembles that of Elgin Cathedral ; and part of its cloisters has been re-constructed into the Free church.
POLAGHLOUP, great cavernous fissure on north coast of Durness parish, Sutherland.
POLBEATH, burn, running southward to the Irvine, at 3| miles east of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
POLGAVIE.
POLGREE, rivulet, running south-east-ward to the Garnock, in Kilbirnie parish, Ayrshire.
POLHARROW, affluent of the Ken, in Kells parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
POLKEMMET, seat of Sir William Baillie, Bart., li mile west of Whitburn, Linlithgowshire.
POLLA, rivulet, running to the sea, in north-east of Durness parish, Sutherland.
POLLEWE.
POLLOCK, rivulet, running to Loch Shiel, on north border of Argyleshire.
POLLOCK, seat of Sir John M. S. Maxwell, Bart., about a mile west of Pollockshaws, Renfrewshire.
POLLOCK, seat of Sir Hew C. Pollock, Bart., 3| miles south-west of Pollockshaws, Renfrewshire.
POLLOCKSHAWS, town on the White Cart, 2J miles south-south-west of Glasgow. It stands in Eastwood parish, which had for ministers the ecclesiastical historians Crawford and Woodrow; consists of irregularly-arranged streets, but presents a pleasant appearance ; 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 town hall, 2 Established churches, 2 Free churches, United Presbyterian, Original Secession, and Roman Catholic churches, an academy so enlarged in 1879 as to have capacity for about 550 scholars, the Sir John Maxwell school, with about the same capacity as the academy, and a handsome monument to the historian Woodrow. Pop. 9363. Part of the town forms a quoad sacra parish. Pop. 6402.
POLLOCKSHIELDS, suburb averagely If mile south-west of centre of Glasgow. It is all modern and regularly aligned ; was constituted a police burgh in 1876 ; consists largely of rows of handsome villas ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Glasgow, a railway station, Established and Free churches of 1878, erected at cost of about respectively 14,000 and 6500, a United Presbyterian church of 1882, and a public school. Pop. 6464. A quoad sacra parish contains the suburb and extends beyond it. Pop. 6523.
POLMADDIE, hill, 1750 feet high, 12 miles south of Maybole, Ayrshire.
POLMADIE, suburb, with site of ancient hospital, in southern outskirts of Glasgow. Pop. 1876.
POLMAILY, seat and public school in Urquhart parish, Inverness-shire.
POLMAISE, seat on the Forth, 2^ miles east of Stirling.
