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TOUR, seat in Kilmaurs parish, Ayrshire.

TOURIELUM, section of Avoch parish, Ross-shire.

TOWARD, estate in south-eastern extremity of Cowal, Argyleshire. It includes Toward Point, crowned by a lighthouse, at north side of entrance of Kyles of Bute ; has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Greenock, a chapel-of-ease, and a public school ; and contains, about a mile west-north-west of Toward Point, the splendid mansion of Toward Castle amid finely-wooded grounds, with ruined baronial fortalice of the Laments.

TOWE, eminence, once a place of feudal courts, in Cumbernauld parish, Dumbartonshire.

TOWER, deep wooded glen, with site of old castle, in Cockburnspath parish, Berwickshire.

TOWER, picturesque steep hill, crowned by lofty modern tower, in Kinfauns parish, Perthshire.

TOWERHILL, seat in Kilmaurs parish, Ayrshire.

TOWER-LINDSAY, ruined baronial fort-alice on the Clyde, in Crawford parish, Lanarkshire.

TOWIE, parish, containing Inverkindy post office under Aberdeen, in Alford district, Aberdeenshire. Its length is about 8 miles ; its greatest breadth about 5 miles ; its area 12,150 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 5589. Pop. 759. The surface is bisected by the Don, includes an inhabited tract of about 3J miles by 2 along that river, and is else-where hilly or mountainous and mostly pastoral. Towie Castle, on the Don, be-longed to the family of Forbes, was the scene, in 1571, of a tragedy commemorated in a famous old ballad, and is now little more than a ruined square tower. Other antiquities are large tumuli, two curious standing-stones, two artificial mounds, and ruins of five old chapels. The public school is new, and has accommodation for 110 scholars.

TOWIE-BARCLAY, interesting old castellated mansion in Turriff parish, Aberdeenshire.

TOWNEND, seat in Symington parish, Ayrshire.

TOWNHEAD, quoad sacra parish in north-east of Glasgow. Pop. 12,529.

TOWNHEAD, place with post office under Castle-Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire.

TOWNHEAD, village in Penpont parish, Dumfriesshire.

TOWNHEAD, seat and lake in Kilsyth parish, Stirlingshire.

TOWNHILL, town adjacent to collieries in Dunfermline parish, Fife. It has a post office under Dunfermline, and a public school of 1876, with accommodation for 400 scholars. Pop. 1862.

TOWN-YETHOLM.

TOXSIDE, seat in Temple parish, Edinburghshire. It has a post office under Goreb ridge.

TRABOCH, barony in Ochiltree parish, Ayrshire.

TRABOURNA, place, inhabited by George Heriot's ancestors, in Gladsmuir parish, Haddingtonshire.

TRADESTON, section of southern portion of Glasgow, on left bank of the Clyde, westward from Glasgow Bridge.

TRAILFLAT, village and ancient parish in Dumfriesshire. The village stands 2^ miles north-west of Lochmaben, and the parish is now part of Tinwald.

TRAILTROW, ancient parish, now part of Cummertrees, Dumfriesshire.

TRALIG, lake discharging Oude rivulet, in Kilninver parish, Argyleshire.

TRALIGILL, rivulet, running to head of Loch Assynt in west of Sutherland.

TRANENT, town and parish on north-west border of Haddingtonshire. The town stands along the brow of a rising-ground about a mile south-south-east of Prestonpans railway station, and 3 miles east of Musselburgh ; appears on record as Travernent in 12th century ; adjoins a coal-field which has been worked from that time till now ; presents an irregular and unattractive appearance ; and has a head post office with money order and telegraph departments, a banking office, 2 inns, Established, Free, United Presbyterian, and Methodist churches, and a public school erected in 1876 at a cost of about 6000. Pop. 2235. The parish contains also Cockenzie town, and Portseaton, Elphinstone, and Meadowmill villages. Its length is 4J miles ; its greatest breadth 3 miles; its area 5919 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 25,985. Pop. 5198. The surface slopes gradually, with gentle undulations, from the southern boundary toward the sea, and has a maxi-mum elevation of about 320 feet above sea-level. The only mansion is St. Ger-mains ; the chief antiquities are Elphinstone and Falside towers ; and interesting grounds are the site of Seaton Palace and part of the battlefield of Prestonpans. Established and Free churches are at Cockenzie. Stiell's education hospital is mile north of Tranent town ; and 5 schools, with accommodation for 1141 scholars, are in the parish.


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