URIE, Aberdeen shire.
URIGILL, picturesque mountain lake, 2J miles long, near south-eastern extremity of Assynt parish, Sutherland.
URISKIN.
URQUHART, village and parish on coast of Elginshire. The village stands 4 miles east-by-south of Elgin, and has Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 136 scholars. The post town is Elgin. The parish forms nearly an equilateral triangle of 5 miles on each side, and comprises 13,066 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 8068. Pop., quoad civilia, 2139; quoad sacra, 1187. The coast extends from the Lossie to the Spey, and is all a sandy beach. Part of the interior is almost a dead level, little higher than the beach ; and the rest is diversified only by swells and gentle eminences. The seats are Innes and Leuchars ; and the chief antiquities are remains of a Cale-donian stone circle and the site of a priory of 12th century. There are 2 schools with capacity for 208 scholars.
URQUHART, parish, chiefly in south-east of Ross-shire, but comprehending also Ferintosh district of Nairnshire. It contains the post office villages of Conan-Bridge, Culbockie, and Newton-Ferintosh, and measures about 9| miles in length and 3J in breadth. Real property in 1880-81, 10,644. Pop. 1087. The surface is bounded on the east by the watershed of the Mullbuy, and descends thence, in pretty regular gradient, to Conan river and upper part of Cromarty Firth. The seats are Conanside, Findon, and Ferintosh. The churches are Established and Free. There are 4 schools for 501 scholars, and 3 of them and an. enlargement for 402 are new.
URQUHART, parish, containing Glenurquhart and Drumnadrochit post offices, on north-west side of Loch Ness, Inverness-shire. It measures about 30 miles in length, and mostly from 8 to 12 miles in breadth. Real property in 1880-81, 11,642. Pop. in 1871, 2780. The surface has a shore-line of about 15 miles on Loch Ness ; comprises two glens, Urquhart and Moriston, nearly parallel to each other, at mean mutual distance of about 7 miles, and respectively about 9 and 12 miles long ; includes, in the north-west, the plateau of Corriernony, elevated about 800 feet above sea-level ; and consists elsewhere of high moors and mountains, culminating between lower part of the glens in Mealfourvounie. Three rivulets, Enneric, Coiltie, and Divach, make remarkable falls ; and two smaller streams make remarkable cataracts. Chief seats are Balmacaan, Invermoriston, Polmaily, Lochletter, Hazlebrae, Lakefield, and Corriemony ; and chief antiquities are Urquhart Castle, which was once a strong fortalice besieged by troops of Edward I. of England, and is now mainly a turreted three-storey keep, a small vitrified fort, numerous cairns, several Caledonian stone circles, and sites or vestiges of several old churches. The present churches are 3 Established, 2 Free, and 1 Episcopalian. There are 6 schools for 559 scholars, and 5 of them for 508 are new.
URQUHART (NORTH), place, with sand-stone quarry remarkable for fossils, in Dunfermline parish, Fife.
URR, lake, river, and parish in Kirkcudbrightshire. The lake lies on boundary with Dumfriesshire, 4 miles south of Minniehive, measures about 3 miles in circuit, and contains an islet with site of ancient Caledonian town, and remains of a strong ancient baronial fortalice. The river issues from the lake, traces for If mile the boundary with Dumfriesshire, and then runs about 22 miles southward to Solway Firth, midway between Nith estuary and Kirkcudbright Bay. The parish adjoins the left side of a long reach of the river; contains Dalbeattie town, Haugh of Urr and Hardgate villages, most of Springholm, and part of Crocketford ; measures 9 miles by 3 ; and com-prises 15,426 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 26,137. Pop., quoad civilia, 5490; quoad sacra, 1350. The north-eastern section includes hills about 600 feet high, but the rest is all comparatively low, and only about one-thirteenth of the whole is not in tillage. Chief seats are Munshes, Spottes, Redcastle, and Milton ; and chief antiquities are several moats and fortified camps. The Moat of Urr, 3 miles north of Dalbeattie, is probably the largest antiquity of its kind in Scotland, and was formerly surrounded by works supposed to have been constructed by the Romans. The churches, inclusive of those in Dalbeattie, are 2 Established, 2 United Presbyterian, and 4, respectively Free, Evangelical Union, Episcopalian, and Roman Catholic. There are 5 schools for 861 scholars, and 2 of them for 570 are new.
URRALL, farm, with remarkable rocking-stone, in Kirkcowan parish, "Wigtoii-shire.
URRARD, seat, contiguous to battlefield of KilliecrankLe, near Blair-Athole village, Perthshire.
URRAY, hamlet in Ross-shire and parish partly also in Inverness-shire. The hamlet lies on peninsula at conflux of the Conan and the Orrin, 5 miles south-south-west of Dingwall, and has a post office designated of Ross-shire, and Established and Free churches. The parish comprises a main body 7 miles long and 6 miles broad, and a detached section in Strathconan, 18 miles distant. Real property in 1880-81, of the Ross-shire parts, 15,536 ; of the Inverness-shire part, 793. Pop., quoad civilia, 2474; quoad sacra, 2427. The main body is low plain with skirting slopes, and the detached section lies embosomed among mountains. A medicinal spring similar to that of Strathpeffer is on the Conan a bank. The seats are Brahan, Highfield, and Ord ; and the antiquities are Fair-burn Tower and Kilchrist burying-ground. An Episcopalian church is at Highfield. There are 3 schools for 364 scholars, and 1 of them and a class-room for 214 are new.
