CASTLETON, small village in Borthwick parish, Edinburghshire.
CASTLETON, farm, with ruins of ancient royal palace, in Fordoun parish, Kincardineshire.
CASTLETON, estate, with vestiges of archiepiscopal mansion of 14th century, in Muckart parish, Perthshire.
CASTLETON, hill, with site of ancient castle, in Avoch parish, Ross-shire.
CASTLETON-BRAEMAR, village at influx of the Cluny to the Dee, 60 miles west-by-south of Aberdeen. It is a tourists' centre for exploring the Dee's upper basin and the Cairngorm Mountains ; it adjoins the ruin of an ancient f ortalice of the Earls of Mar, said to have been originally a hunting-seat of Malcolm Canmore ; it is near a castellated edifice of 1720, long used by a Government garrison ; and it has a post office of Braemar, with money order and telegraph departments, under Aberdeen, 2 hotels, Established, Free, and Roman Catholic Churches, and a public school. Pop., with adjacent part of quoad sacra parish, 859.
CASTLETON (NEW).
CASTLETOWN, town at head of Dunnet Bay, 5 miles east of Thurso, Caithness. It is modern, contains some handsome houses, conducts a large trade in working and ex-porting pavement flags, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph department, under Thurso, a banking office, Established, Free, and Original Secession churches, and a public school Avith about 113 scholars. Pop. 932.
CASTLE-URQUHART.
CASTLE-VARRICH, ruined fortalice on small promontory near head of Kyle of Tongue, Sutherland.
CASTLE- WALLANS, vestige of old fort-alice, said to have been a refuge of Sir William Wallace, on the Clyde, in Carluke parish, Lanarkshire.
CASTLEWIGG, seat in Whithorn parish, Wigtonshire.
CASTRAGOE, harbour in Birsay parish, Orkney.
CASTRAMOUNT, ancient small moat in Girthon parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
CATACOL, hamlet at mouth of Glencatacol, Arran Island, Buteshire. Tradition says that a battle was fought on its site between Fingal and his enemies.
CATCUNE, hamlet and ruined fortalice, in Borthwick parish, Edinburghshire.
CATERLINE, village and ancient parish in Kincardineshire. The village stands on the coast, 5 miles north-north-east of Bervie, and has a pier and an Episcopalian church. The parish is now united to Kinneff.
CATERTHUN, hills, with remains of very strong and extensive ancient Cale-donian fortifications, 4J miles north-west of Brechin, Forfarshire.
CATFIRTH, voe or bay on southern boundary of Nesting parish, Shetland.
CATHCART, parish, chiefly in Renfrewshire, but partly in Lanarkshire, and including parts of the southern suburbs of Glasgow. It has a post office of its own name under Glasgow, and contains the Queen's Park, the town of Crossbill, the villages of NewCathcart, Old Cathcart, Crossmyloof, Langside, Camphill, Prospect Hill, Florida, Clarkston-Toll, Hangingshaw, Millbridge, Netherlee, and part of the town of Busby. Its length is 4 miles ; its greatest breadth about 2 miles ; its area, in Renfrewshire, 2667 acres ; in Lanarkshire, 1397 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 86,113 and 4381. Pop. , quoad civilia, 12,023 and 188 ; quoad sacra, 7242 and 73. The northern section is a charming expanse of rolling landscape, very rich in both natural beauty and artificial embellishment ; but the southern section is somewhat hilly and comparatively bleak and barren. A tract of much interest is the battlefield of Langside ; and an object of much note is Cathcart Castle, a place of conflict in the times of Wallace and Bruce, and long the seat of the distinguished family of its own name, but now a diminished ivy-clad ruin. The Cathcart family acquired the title of baron in the peerage of Scotland about 1447, and the titles of viscount and earl in the peerage of the United Kingdom in respectively 1807 and 1814. Their hereditary estates were alienated in 1546, but partly repurchased within the present century. Their present seat in the parish is Cathcart House. Other seats are Aikenhead, Langside, Netherlee, Camphill, and numerous villas. The churches are 3 Established, 4 Free, and 4 United Presbyterian. There are 10 schools for 1686 scholars, and 2 of them for 700 are new.
CATHCART (NEW), village on the White Cart, 2| miles south of Glasgow. It was founded about the beginning of present century. Pop. 689.
CATHCART (OLD), village on the White Cart, near New Cathcart. It contains parish, Dumfriesshire. It has a public school with about 93 scholars.
