POLMONT, village and parish on east border of Stirlingshire. The village stands 3 miles east of Falkirk, gives the title of baron to the Duke of Hamilton, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Stirlingshire, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 196 scholars. Pop. 519. The parish contains also Redding, Wallacetown, Shieldhill, and Craigs villages, and small part of Grangemouth town. Its length is 6 miles ; its greatest breadth about 2^ miles ; its area 5121 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 20,883. Pop., quoad civilia, 3955; quoad sacra, 3861. The northern section is bounded by the Forth, and consists of rich carse, so low as to be protected by strong embankments from the tides ; and the southern section rises gradually to a maxi-mum height of about 553 feet. Coal, ironstone, and sandstone abound, and are largely worked. Chief seats are Polmont House, Polmont Park, Polmont Bank, Parkhill, Clarkstone, and Millfield ; and a great antiquity was a reach of Antoninus' wall, now quite extinct. A chapel-of-ease is at Shieldhill. Six schools for 826 scholars are in the parish, and 1 of them and enlargements for 316 are new.
POLMONT JUNCTION, railway station, 3 miles east of Falkirk, Linlithgowshire. It has a post office designated of Stirlingshire.
POLMOOD, burn running north-eastward to the Tweed, in Tweedsmuir parish, Peeblesshire.
POLMUNCKSHEAD, estate in Douglas parish, Lanarkshire.
POLNACKIE.
POLNOON, quondam castle, now represented by only slight vestiges, in Eaglesham parish, Renfrewshire. It was long the residence of the Earl of Eglinton's ancestors.
POLROAG, cove, with narrow entrance, but good anchorage, on Duirinish coast, Isle of Skye.
POLTAIRVE, creek, with safe anchoring-ground, on Mull coast, opposite lona, Argyleshire.
POLTALLOCH, ancient seat on south-east shore of Loch Craignish, Argyleshire.
POLTIEL, sea-loch, 2 miles long, on Duirinish coast, Isle of Skye.
POLTON, village, 1 mile west of Lasswade, Edinburghshire. It has a post office designated of Mid-Lothian, and a railway station. Pop. 130.
POLTONHALL, village in Cockpen parish, Edinburghshire. Pop. 304.
POLWARTH, village and parish in Berwickshire. The village stands 4 miles south-west of Dunse, is an ancient place under modern improvement, figures in the song of ' Polwarth on the Green,' and gives the peerage title of baron to the family of Hepburn-Scott. The parish contains Marchmont railway station, and its post town is Dunse. It measures about 3 miles by 2, and comprises 3013 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 2812. Pop. 227. About one-third of the land is hilly and heathy, and the rest undulates gradually to the east. Marchmont House is the only mansion. The church stands within Marchmont grounds, was built in 1703, and succeeded an ancient one on the same spot which gave concealment, in the persecuting times of Charles II., to the Protestant statesman Sir Patrick Hume, who eventually became Earl of Marchmont. There are 2 schools with capacity for 91 scholars.
POMATHORN, railway station, 15 miles south of Edinburgh.
POMONA, largest of the Orkney Islands. It lies south-westward of the centre of Orkney, but presents its south coast to Scalpa Flow, and its west and north-west coast to the Atlantic ; it measures 22 miles from east to west, and 17^ from north to south, but probably not more than 150 square miles in area; it is deeply and variously indented, especially in the east and the south, by sea inlets ; it includes on the south-east a section of about 9 by 9 miles, connected with the rest by only an isthmus of 2J miles ; and it presents a surface of similar character and diversity to that of the entire archipelago.
PONFEIGH, railway station, 2 miles north-east of Douglas, Lanarkshire. A coal-field of same name is adjacent.
PONIEL, burn and farm, with large cairn, in Douglas parish, Lanarkshire.
POOL, village in Muckart parish, Perthshire.
POOLEWE, village and quoad sacra parish on west coast of Ross-shire. The village stands at head of Loch Ewe, 5 miles north-north-east of Gairloch church, and 60 west-by-north of Dingwall ; is a chief point of communication across the Minch with Outer Hebrides ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Ross-shire, an inn, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 51 scholars. The parish measures about 20 miles by 12, and was constituted by ecclesiastical authority in 1838, and re-constituted by civil authority in 1851. Pop. 2217.
POOLTANTON.
PORT, village in Barvas parish, Lewis, Outer Hebrides. Pop. 180.
PORT, Perthshire. See MONTEITH (PORT OF)
PORT ALLAN, creek and landing place, 1\ miles east of Whithorn, "Wigtonshire.
PORT ALLEN, small harbour, \\ mile south of Errol, Perthshire.
PORT APPIN, hamlet on Appin coast, opposite north end of Lismore Island, Argyleshire. It has a post office designated of Argyleshire, an inn, and a ferry.
PORT ASKAIG, seaport village on north-east coast of Islay, opposite Jura, Argyleshire. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Greenock, and a good inn.
