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TOMINTOUL, village and quoad sacra parish near south-western extremity of Banffshire. The village stands on the river Aven, 14 miles south-east of Grantown, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Ballindalloch, Established and Roman Catholic churches, and a public school with about 147 scholars. Pop. 478. The parish was constituted ecclesiastically in 1833, and politically in 1845. Pop. 686.

TOMMORE, burn in Inveraven parish, Banffshire.

TOMNACHASTLE, beautiful eminence, 3 miles east of Comrie, Perthshire. It has a height of 434 feet above sea-level, and commands delightful views. An ancient strong castle of the Earls of Strathearn surmounted it ; and a monument to Sir David Baird, a granite obelisk 82 feet high, was erected on the castle's site in 1832, suffered severe damage from lightning in 1878, and was restored at a cost of about 1250.

TOMNACLAG, summit of Inchtavanach Island, in Loch Lomond.

TOMNACROSS, place in Kiltarlity parish, Inverness-shire. It has a public school with about 140 scholars.

TOMNAHIVRIGH, smaU hill, with ancient Caledonian stone circle, in Coull parish, Aberdeenshire.

TOMNAHURICH, isolated, diluvial, wooded eminence about a mile south-west of Inverness. It is traced with charming walks, and partly occupied by recent ornate cemetery.

TOMNARROCH, burn, entering the Findhorn in Ardclach parish, Nairnshire.

TOMNAVOULIN, place in Glenlivet, Banffshire. It has a post office under Craigellachie.

TOMONT, hill, 1652 feet high, 4 miles south-south-east of Crawford, Lanarkshire.

TOMRAWER, estate in Kilsyth parish, Stirlingshire.

TON, affluent of the Don in Kemnay parish, Aberdeenshire.

TONDERGHIE, estate in Whithorn parish, Wigtonshire.

TONG, village, headland, and rivulet on west side of Broad Bay, in Stornoway parish, Outer Hebrides.

TONGLAND, parish lying along right side of the Dee to a point 2 miles north-north-east of Kirkcudbright. It has a post office under Kirkcudbright, and contains the post office village of Ringford. Its length is 6| miles ; its breadth from i mile to 5 miles ; its area 9738 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 10,131. Pop. 829. The surface is variously flat, sloping, ridgy, and rugged ; and part of it is moorish, but most is arable. The seats are Argrennan, Queenshill, Valleyfield, Barcaple, and Upper Barcaple; and the chief antiquity is a fragment of a priory of 12th century. The churches are Established and Free ; and there is a public school with about 65 scholars.

TONGUE, village and parish on north coast of Sutherland. The village stands on Kyle of Tongue, 44 miles west-south-west of Thurso, is sometimes called Kirkiboll, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Sutherlandshire, a ferry station, an inn, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 60 scholars. The parish contains also three other villages, includes several islets, and measures about 20 miles by 12. Real property in 1880-81, 4635. Pop. 1929. The coast extends from Torrisdale Bay to "Whitenhead, has numerous intersections, and is mostly high and rocky, partly lofty, mural, and romantic. A valley opens at middle of the coast; ascends through the interior to the extreme south-south-west ; is grandly over-hung, in the upper parts, on respectively the east and the west sides, by Benloyal and Benhope ; has high hill-screens also in the lower part ; is occupied along the bottom there, to the length of 8 miles, by Kyle of Tongue ; and, in the aggregate aspect, looks like a vast amphitheatre. Only about 1000 acres are in tillage. Tongue House, on the Kyle, about a mile below the village, is a seat of the Duke of Sutherland ; and Castle Varrich, a little above the village, is the shell of an old square fortalice. A Free church is at Melness. Three schools for 355 scholars are in the parish, and 1 of them and an enlargement for 140 are new.

TONLEY, seat in Tough parish, Aberdeenshire.

TOOKQUAY, bay, 4* miles wide at entrance and 5 miles long, in south-west of Westray Island, Orkney.

TOR, head-stream of the White Cart, Renfrewshire.

TOR, hill in Ecclesmachan parish, Linlithgowshire.

TOR, glen in Kirkmichael parish, Dumfriesshire.

TOR, eminence, with ancient encampment lines, near Aberfeldy, Perth-S TOR-A-BHEAN, hill-ridge, nearly 300 feet high, with traces of ancient ramparts and ditches, about a mile south-west of Inverness.

TOR-ACHILTIE, beautiful wooded hill overhanging Loch Achiltie, in south-east of Ross-shire.

TOR-ALVIE, conspicuous hill-like crag, 'crowned by huge cairn-monument to the heroes of Waterloo, in Alvie parish, Inverness-shire.

TORBANEHILL, rich mineral field in Bathgate parish, Linlithgowshire.

TORBANK, seat near Birnam, Perth-

TORBECK, hill in Tundergarth parish, Dumfriesshire.


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