STAFFIN, sea-loch or bay in vicinity of Steinscholl, on north-east coast of Isle of Skye. It measures about 1^ mile across the entrance, has nearly a half-moon form, and is screened all round by successive tiers or terraces of basaltic colonnades, terminating at elevation of from 1000 to 1500 feet. Staffin post office, under Portree, is in Steinscholl.
STAGEHALL, farm, with remains of Roman camp, in Stow parish, Edinburghshire.
STAIN.
STAIR, village and parish in Kyle district, Ayrshire. The village stands on Ayr river, 5 miles south-west of Mauchline, gives the titles of viscount and earl to the family of Dalrymple, and has a post office designated Stairbridge, under Tarbolton Station, Established and Free churches, and a large public school. The parish measures about 6 miles by 2f, and comprises 5376 acres. Keal property in 1879-80, 10,782. Pop. 928. The boundaries are largely formed by rivers Ayr and Coyle, and the land exhibits much beauty adjacent to the Ayr, and is pre-valently undulating. Chief seats are Stair House, Barskimming, and Drongan ; and chief antiquities are remains of Tribboch and Drongan towers.
STAIRHAVEN, small harbour, 2| miles south of Glenluce, Wigtonshire.
STAKE, hill, 1711 feet high, 5 miles north-east of Largs, Ayrshire.
STANDARD, small lake on high ground in Gamrie parish, Banffshire.
STANDING-STONES.
STANDRIGG, village in Muiravonside parish, Stirlingshire.
STANE, village on South Calder river, 7 miles north-east of "Wishaw, Lanarkshire. It adjoins extensive collieries, is connected with Shotts Ironworks, and has an Evangelical Union chvirch.
STANEMANNISHEAD, ancient estate in Alvah parish, Banffshire.
STANGAR, headland in south-east of Westray Island, Orkney.
STANHOPEMILL, hamlet inCorstorphine parish, Edinburghshire.
STANLEY, town and quoad sacra parish in Perthshire. The town stands on the Tay, 7 miles north of Perth ; was named from a member of the ducal family of Athole ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments,designated of Perthshire, a railway junction station, an inn, cotton mills, a public hall of 1880, a conspicuous Established church, and a Free church. Pop. 1015. Stanley House, a renovated old mansion of the Lords Nairne, stands adjacent to the town. The quoad sacra parish was constituted in 1877. Pop. 1276.
STANLEY, tower and braes, 2 miles south-west of Paisley, Renfrewshire. The tower is a ruined baronial fortalice about 40 feet high, and was engirt in 1837 by a reservoir of Paisley waterworks. The braes are a northern portion of the Fereneze Hills.
STANNER, island in Isla river near mutual border of Forfarshire and Perthshire.
STANSTILL, estate and public school in east of Bower parish, Caithness.
STAPLEGORTON, ancient parish, now part of Langholm, Dumfriesshire.
STAR, village in Kennoway parish, Fife. It has a post office under Markinch. Pop. 264.
STAR, mountains, flanking east side of Loch Doon, on north-west verge of Kirkcudbrightshire.
STARE-DAM, place, adjacent to ancient rude standing-stones, in Auchtergaven parish, Perthshire.
STARLEY, burn and small harbour in Burntisland parish, Fife. The burn falls in cascade into Firth of Forth, and the harbour is adjacent to its mouth.
STARR, farm, where considerable number of sarcophagi have been found, in Kilmany parish, Fife.
STARSACH-NA-GAEL, mountain-pass in Moy parish, Inverness-shire.
START, terminating point of narrow peninsula in north-east of Sanday Island, Orkney. It has a lighthouse with fixed red light visible at the distance of 14 J nautical miles.
STARTHOPE, hill, with remains of Cale-donian camp, in "Wandell parish, Lanarkshire.
STASLAY, islet on east side of South Uist, Outer Hebrides.
STAVANESS, headland in Nesting parish, Shetland.
STAXIGOE, fishing village, 2 miles north-east of Wick, Caithness. It has a public school with about 120 scholars. Pop. 402.
STEELE-ROAD, railway station, 16J miles south of Hawick, Roxburghshire.
STEILSTON, place, with public scnool, in Holywood parish, Dumfriesshire.
STEIN, fishing village, 5 miles north of Dunvegan, in Isle of Skye.
STEINSCHOLL, village and quoad sacra parish in north-east of Isle of Skye. The village stands near head of Loch Staffin, 18 miles north of Portree, and has a post office of Staffin under Portree, an inn, Established and Free churches, and a public school. The parish was constituted ecclesiastically in 1833, and politically in 1847. Pop. 1314.
