ROBERTON, village and ancient parish in upper ward of Lanarkshire. The village stands on burn of its own name near the burn's influx to the Clyde, 4 miles north-east of Abington, and has a United Presbyterian church. The parish contains a conspicuous hill called Roberton Law, and is now annexed to "Wiston.
ROBERTSON MEMORIAL, quoad sacra Krish in Grange suburb, Edinburgh. >p. 8335.
ROBERTSON MEMORIAL, quoad sacra parish in Glasgow. Pop. 5605. ROB6ILL, seat, including old tower, on Kirtle rivulet, 4J miles north-east of Annan, Dumfriesshire.
ROBINRIG, sandbank in Solway Firth off Southerness Point, Kirkcudbrightshire.
ROBIN'S HEIGHT, place where King .Robert Bruce lay encamped during severe sickness, in Drumblade parish, Aberdeenshire.
ROB ROY'S CAVE.
ROBROYSTON, estate, 4 miles north-east of Glasgow. It contained, till 1826, the cottage in which Sir "William "Wallace was betrayed ; it retains the bed of the lake which figures in the stories of his betrayal ; and it now has a modern mansion.
ROB'S REDE, trace of ancient circular fort in Rescobie parish, Forfarshire.
ROCHANE, place on west side of upper part of Gare Loch, Dumbartonshire.
ROCHELHILL, estate in Glammis parish, Forfarshire.
ROCHSILLOCH, mineral tract, with rich ironstone pits, in Old Monkland parish, Lanarkshire.
ROCHSOLES, seat, 1J mile north of Airdrie, Lanarkshire.
ROCK-AND-SPINDLE, curious insulated trap rock about 1J mile from St. Andrews,
ROCKCLIFFE, extensive sands in head of Solway Firth between Scotland and England.
ROCKFIELD, village in Tarbat parish, Ross-shire.
ROCKHALL, seat of Sir Alexander D. Grierson, Bart., in Mouswald parish, Dumfriesshire.
ROCKHALL, artificial large mound on spur of hills overlooking south side of Lochmaben lochs and castle, Dumfriesshire. It served, in old times, both as a seat of justice and as a beacon-post, and is often called Beacon Hill.
ROCKHALL, small bay in St. Cyrus parish, Kincardineshire.
ROCKHILL, seat in Glenorchy parish, Argyleshire.
ROCKHILLFLAT, burn in Applegarth parish, Dumfriesshire.
ROCKHOLE, very deep pool, engirt by rock, in Annan river, 4 miles south of Lockerby, Dumfriesshire.
ROCK-OF-THE-KILT.
ROCK-OF-WEEM, romantic, acclivitous, wooded ridge, about 600 feet high, 1J mile north-west of Aberfeldy, Perthshire.
ROCKVILLE, seat in North Berwick parish, Haddingtonshire.
RODEL.
RODONO, recently erected mansion on St. Mary's Loch, Selkirkshire.
ROE, sound and two islands, Meikle and Little, in St. Magnus Bay, Shetland.
ROENESS.
ROGART, hamlet and parish in south-east of Sutherland. The hamlet lies 1\ miles west of Golspie, and has a post office designated of Sutherlandshire, a railway station, Established and Free churches, and a public school. The parish measures 17 miles in length and from 3 to 7J miles in breadth. Real property in 1880-81, 5196. Pop. 1227. The surface includes upper part of Strathbrora and all Strathfleet, each with bottom from a few yards to f mile broad, and consists wholly of these and their hill-screens ; and it contains many tumuli, Scandinavian structures, and vestiges of camps. There are 2 public schools with about 101 scholars.
ROGER'S KIRK, deep ravine, a retreat of the Covenanters, on south-east border of Dunsyre parish, Lanarkshire.
ROGIE, fine cascade on Rasay rivulet, Ross-shire.
ROLLOX (ST.), suburb about \ mile north of Glasgow Cathedral. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Glasgow, and very extensive chemical works with more than 100 furnaces, and a conspicuous chimney-stalk 435 feet high.
ROMACH, picturesque small lake, 6 miles south-south-east of Forres, Elginshire.
ROMANNO, seat, 3 miles south-south-east of Linton village, Peeblesshire.
RONA, island, averagely 14 miles north-east of Portree, in Skye, Inverness-shire. It measures about 5 miles in length, and less than a mile in breadth ; is nowhere higher than about 500 feet ; presents an uninviting appearance ; and has a light-house with flashing white light visible at the distance of 20 nautical miles. Pop. 176.
RONA, island near south-west point of North Uist, Outer Hebrides. It measures about 2 miles by 1J, and rises to a height of about 600 feet. Pop. 6.
RONA, small island, 38 miles north-west of Butt of Lewis, Outer Hebrides.
RONA, hill, 5 miles south-south-west of northern extremity of Main-land, Shetland. It rises to a height of 1476 feet, is crowned by an ancient watch-tower, and commands a view of nearly all Shetland.
