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CONANSYTHE, seat in Carmylie parish, Forfarshire.

CONDIE, hill, adjacent to May rivulet, and seat near Forgandenny, Perthshire.

CONDORRAT, village, 2f miles south-west of Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire. It has a post office under Airdrie, and an Established church of 1875. Pop. 620.

CONGALTON, barony in Dirleton parish, Haddingtonshire.

CONGHOILLIS, ancient parish, now called Inverkeilor, Forfarshire.

CONGLASS, affluent of the Aven, in Kirkmichael parish, Banffshire.

CONHEATH, seat in Caerlaverock parish, Dumfriesshire.

CONICAVAL, hamlet in Edenkillie parish, Elginshire.

CONIGLEN, streamlet and vale in Southend parish, Kintyre, Argyleshire.

CONINGSBURGH, hamlet and ancient parish in south of Shetland. The hamlet lies on the coast, 9 miles south-south-west of Lerwick, and has a Free church. The parish is now annexed to Dunrossness.

CONNAGE, fishing village in Petty parish. Inverness-shire.

CONNEL, lake in Kirkcolrn parish, Wigtonshire.

CONNEL, place adjacent to Connel Ferry, Argyleshire. It has a post office under Oban.

CONNEL FERRY, strait in Loch Etive, 3 miles east of Dunstaffnage, Argyleshire. It takes across the communication from Oban to Appin, has an inn on each side, gives name to an adjacent railway station G miles from Oban, and is swept by a tidal cataract believed to be the Lora of Ossian, and noticed in Sir Walter Scott's Lord of the I*lf*.

CONNEL PARK, village in New Cumnock parish, Ayrshire. Pop. 495.

CONRY, affluent of the Don in Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire.

CONTENT, north-eastern suburb or section of Ayr, Ayrshire.

CONTIN, hamlet and parish in south-east of Ross-shire. The hamlet lies on Garve river, near influx to the Conan, about 8 miles south-west of Dingwall, and has a post office under Dingwall, an inn, a parochial church, and a public school with about 80 scholars. The parish measured along roads is 33 miles in length, and not much less in breadth. Real property in 1880-81, 17,949. Pop., quoad civilia, 1422; quoad sacra, 708. The surface is mostly mountainous and sterile, yet includes numerous glens and vales, and is much diversified by lakes and streams. A chief object is Coul, the seat of Sir Arthur G. R. Mackenzie, Bart. Two quoad sacra parish churches, 2 Free churches, and 2 schools for 138 scholars, are in the parish, and 1 of the schools for 100 scholars is new.

CONTULLICH, burn in Aboyne parish, Aberdeenshire.

CONVAL, hill, with vestiges of Danish camp, in Mortlach parish, Banffshire.

CONVETH, estate in Laurencekirk parish, Kincardineshire.

CONVINTH, old parish, now part of Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire.

COODHAM, estate in Symington parish, Ayrshire.

COOKNEY, quoad sacra parish, with church and public school, 4J miles north of Stonehaven, Kincardineshire. The church contains about 700 sittings, and the school has about 80 scholars. Pop. 1976.

COPAY, island in Sound of Harris, Outer Hebrides.

COPINSHAY, island in St. Andrew parish, Orkney. Pop. 5.

COPPERCLEUCH, place, with post office under Selkirk.

COQUET, river, running about a mile on south-east boundary of Oxnam parish, Roxburghshire, but belonging everywhere else to England.

CORAFUAR, mountain in Luss parish, Dumbartonshire.

CORAH, vestige of ancient castle, a seat of Lord Herries, in Kirkgunzeon parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.

CORBELLY, roundish hill contiguous to Maxwelltown suburb of Dumfries. It commands a delightful panoramic view ; has, on its east shoulder, an observatory and museum ; and is edificed, on its town-ward slopes, by new streets.

CORBET, renovated old Border tower in Morebattle parish, Roxburghshire.

CORBIE, burn in Inverarity parish, Forfarshire.

CORBIEHALL, farm, with vestiges of Roman camp, in Carstairs parish, Lanarkshire.

CORBIEHALL, suburb of Borrowstownness, Linlithgowshire.

CORBIEHILL, hamlet in Balmerino parish, Fife.

CORBIE POT, glen in Maryculter parish, Kincardineshire.

CORBIE'S KNOWE, artificial mound, with traces of ancient fort, on Lunan Bay, Forfarshire.

CORCHINNAN, head-stream of Bogie river, Aberdeenshire.

CORE, head-stream of the Tweed, in Tweedsmuir parish, Peeblesshire.

CORE, one of the Ochil Hills, 2J miles south of Blackford, Perthshire.

COREEN, hill-range on northern boundary of Alford district, Aberdeenshire.

COREHOUSE, modern mansion and ruined ancient castle on the Clyde, adjacent to Corra Linn, Lanarkshire.

COR-ELLAN, islet in South Knapdale parish, Argyleshire.

CORF, seat near Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.

CORFHOUSE, bay in Kintail parish, Ross-shire.

CORGARF, quoad sacra parish around sources and head-streams of the Don, Aberdeenshire. It has a post office under Aberdeen, a military station, a church with 350 sittings, and a small Roman Catholic chapel. An ancient castle occupied the site of the military station ; was for ages a hunting-seat of the Earls of Mar, and was burnt in 1551 by Sir Adam Gordon, when 27 persons perished in the flames.


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