SHIRGARTON, village in Perthshire section of Kippen parish.
SHIRVA, estate, with colliery, in Kirkintilloch parish, Dumbartonshire.
SHIRVA, hamlet in Fair Island, Shetland.
SHISKIN, hamlet and vale in south-west of Arran Island, Buteshire. The hamlet lies on Drimadown Bay, 9 miles west-by-south of Lamlash, and has a post office under Brodick, Isle of Arran, a Free church, and a public school with about 126 scholars. The vale extends from the hamlet up Blackwater rivulet, comprises more than 1700 acres of arable land, and is the most fertile part of Arran.
SHOCHIE, rivulet, running about 8 miles eastward to the Tay at Luncarty, Perthshire.
SHONA, island bisecting about two-thirds of Loch Moydart, Inverness-shire. Pop. 118.
SHOTTS, parish on north-east border of middle ward of Lanarkshire. It is bounded on the north-west by North Calder river, on the south-east by South Calder river. It has, of its own name, a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Lanarkshire, a railway station, and a banking office ; and it contains the villages of Dykehead, Harthill, Muirhead, Omoa, and Sallysburgh, and most of the villages of Shotts-Ironworks and Cleland-Ironworks. Its length is 10 miles ; its greatest breadth 8 miles ; its area 24,944 acres. Eeal property in 1880-81, 74,635. Pop. , quoad civilia, 8593 ; quoad sacra, 4294. The watershed between the basin of the Clyde and that of the Forth passes along the centre, has here a maximum altitude of about 500 feet above sea-level, and commands here extensive, delightful, panoramic views. The surface declines gradually on both sides of the watershed, sinks to a minimum elevation of about 200 feet, and formerly was mostly moorish, sterile, and bleak, but now exhibits prevailingly a reclaimed and highly-improved appearance. Coal and ironstone abound throughout the south, and are richly utilized in the ironworks of Shotts, Omoa, Gartness, and Cleland. The parishioners, in the times of persecution, figured greatly in the affairs of the Covenanters. The parochial church was shattered by lightning, and afterwards restored, in 1876. Other churches are Free, United Original Secession, Evangelical Union, and Eoman Catholic. There are 6 schools for 1329 scholars, and 3 of them and an enlargement for 880 are new.
SHOTTSBURN, place, with United Original Secession church, in Shotts parish, Lanarkshire.
SHOTTS-IRONWORKS, village, with iron-works, on right bank of Calder rivulet, 6J miles north-east of Wishaw, Lanarkshire Pop. with Torbothie, 969.
SHOUGHENDS, hill-ridge forming back-bone of Big Cumbray Island, Buteshire. It commands a panoramic view of the waters and screens of Firth of Clyde.
SHUNA, island, about 3 miles long, divided by narrow straits from Luing Island and Craignish peninsula, in Nether Lorn, Argyleshire. Pop. 14.
SHUNA, island in Loch Linnhe, opposite Appin village, Argyleshire.
SHURIRY, lake in Reay parish, Caithness.
SHURRACH, hill, with Caledonian stone circle, in Kingoldrum parish, Forfarshire.
SHUTTERFLAT, barony, 2^ miles east-by-north of Beith, Ayrshire.
SIAN, bay on west side of Jura Island, Argyleshire.
SIANTA, tiny limpid lake, long associated with popular superstition, in Kilmuir parish, Isle of Skye.
SIBBALDBIE, ancient parish, now part of Applegarth, Dumfriesshire. It retains ruins of its church, and has a public school with about 65 scholars.
SIBSTER, seat in Wick parish, Caithness.
SICCAR, small headland, with almost vertical stratified rocks, in Cockburnspath parish, Berwickshire.
SIDEHILL, eminence on right side of the Liddel, 2 miles south-by-west of Newcastleton, Roxburghshire. It is crowned by a Roman camp 300 feet broad, and was the site of the residence of the Border riever 'Jock o' the Side.'
SIDERA, township in Dornoch parish, Sutherland.
SIDLAW, hill-chain commencing on left side of the Tay adjacent to Perth, extending 21 miles north-eastward to a line 6 miles south-south-west of Forfar, and forking there into one line 18 miles east-north-eastward to Redhead in Forfarshire, and another line 38 miles north-eastward to the coast adjacent to Stonehaven in Kincardineshire. Its prominent portion is from the Tay to the fork ; consists of ridges, plateaux, and isolated hills, mostly compact but occasionally separated by passes and hollows ; and has numerous summits upwards of 900 feet high, but none higher than 1406 feet.
SIGHTHILL, eminence, 7 furlongs north of Glasgow Cathedral. It rises to a height of nearly 400 feet; is covered, to the extent of 12 acres, by an ornate cemetery; and commands a view of the Clyde's basin from Tinto to the Grampians. A Free church and a railway goods station are adjacent.
SIGHTHILL, eminence, formerly fortified, in Muiravonside parish, Stirlingshire.
SILLYEARN, wooded hill in Grange parish, Banffshire.
SILVERBANK, village in west end of Cambuslang parish, Lanarkshire. Pop. 479.
