TORRANCE, village near Kelvin Valley Railway, 3 miles south of Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire. It has a post office under Glasgow, a railway station, a public school with about 107 scholars, and a new first-class school of 1882 with capacity for 160 scholars. Pop. 496.
TORRIDON, sea-loch, hamlet, and seat in west of Ross-shire. The loch opens opposite the north-east of Skye ; divides Gairloch parish from Applecross; penetrates 13 miles east-south-eastward, but forms three successive reaches separated bynarrow stiaits ; is 4 miles wide at the entrance, and IT, mile at the head ; has Shieldag village on shore of its middle reach ; and is flanked by bold massive heights, variously mural, shattered, and shelving, and rising on one summit to an altitude of 3015 feet. The hamlet and the seat are at the loch's head ; and the former has a post office, with money order department, under Auchna sheen, and an inn.
TORRIN, hamlet on east side of upper part of Loch Slapin, Isle of Skye.
TORRINCH.
TORRISDALE, bay and village, 2 miles west of Farr, on north coast of Sutherland.
TORRISDALE, rivulet and seat in Saddell parish, Kintyre, Argyleshire.
TORRS, fine natural harbour on east side of Kirkcudbright Bay, Kirkcudbrightshire.
TORRS, farm, with copious spring and remains of Caledonian stone circle, in Kelton parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
TORRS, wooded heights in Kilbarchan parish, Renfrewshire.
TORRVAULD, plateau, with charming views, on right side of the Tay near Dunkeld, Perthshire.
TORRY, fishing town on right bank of the Dee, opposite Aberdeen. It has a post office, with money order department, under Aberdeen, a battery with fortification and barracks, a pier, a Free church, and a public school with about 115 scholars. Pop. 1281.
TORRY, seat in Torryburn parish, Fife.
TORRYBURN, village and parish in south-western extremity of Fife. The village stands on the coast, 4 miles west-south-west of Dunfermline ; carries on some little commerce ; and has a post office, with money order department, under Dunfermline, Established and Free churches, and a public school with capacity for 182 scholars. The parish contains also Newmills, Crombie, and Crombie-Point villages, and most of Low Torry. Its length is 4J miles ; its greatest breadth 2 miles ; its area 3994 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 7691. Pop. 737. The surface is pleasantly diversified, and commands, from its higher grounds, very fine views of the Firth and the Lothians. The rocks are carboniferous. Chief objects are Torry House and ruins of Crombie church.
TORRYBURNRIG, mountain, 6J miles west of Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire.
TORRYLEITH, lands on south border of Udny parish, Aberdeenshire.
TORRY (LOW), village, chiefly in Torryburn parish, Fife, and partly in Perthshire.
TORSAY, one of the Slate Islands, separated by only narrow straits from Seil and Luing, in Argyleshire. It measures about 3 miles by 1, and has a smooth verdant surface less than 200 feet high. Pop.
TORSONCE, renovated old castle in southern vicinity of Stow village, Edinburghshire.
TORTERSTON, barony on right side of the Ugie, near Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
TORTHORWALD, village and parish in south-west of Dumfriesshire. The village stands 4 miles east-north-east of Dumfries, and has a post office under Dumfries, a parochial church, and a public school. The parish contains also Roucan and Collin villages, measures 6J miles by 3^, and comprises 6831 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 7656. Pop. 990. The north-western and the southern sections are part of Lochar moss, and the rest is the gentle western ascent and part of the tabular summit of a softly-featured hill-range continuous with that of Tinwald. Torthorwald Castle, on the face of the ascent, is a curious fragmentary thick-walled ruin ; and when entire, belonged to a natural son of Regent Morton, and gave him the title of Lord Torthorwald. There are 3 schools for 227 scholars, and 1 of them for 100 is new.
TORWOOD, village and remnant of ancient extensive forest in north-east of Dunipace parish, Stirlingshire. The forest was a hiding-place of Sir William Wallace, and the scene of Donald Cargill's excommunication of Charles II.
TORWOODLEE, seat and ruined large ancient fortalice, 2 miles north-west of Galashiels, Selkirkshire.
TOSCORTON, ancient parish, now part of Stoneykirk, Wigtonshire.
TOTAGAN, place, with vestiges of cairns and Caledonian stone circles, in Kilmuir parish, Isle of Skye.
TOTE, seat in Snizort parish, Isle of
TOTE-BROW, scene of Pictish encampment in Strathmartine section of Mains parish, Forfarshire.
TOTHORL, fragment of ancient fortalice, 1J mile south of Douglas Castle, in Douglas parish, Lanarkshire.
TOUCH, seat of Sir Henry J. S. Stewart, Bart., on burn of same name, 2| miles south-west of Stirling.
TOUCHADAM, estate in St. Nmians parish, Stirlingshire.
TOUCKS, low hill in Dunnottar parish, Kincardineshire.
TOUGH, parish, averagely 4 miles south-east of Alford, Aberdeenshire. It contains the post office of Whitehouse under Aberdeen, measures about 5^ miles by 3, and comprises 7108 acres. Real property in 1SSO-81, 5726. Pop. 681. The surface is diversified, lies on a basis of about 420 feet above sea-level, and includes a summit upwards of 1500 feet high. The only seat is Tonley ; and the chief antiquities are two cairns, a Caledonian stone circle, and a mediaeval monumental standing-stone. The churches are Established, Free, and United Presbyterian ; but the last, though designated of Tough, stands within Leoohel. The public school is new, and has capacity for 120 scholars.
