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Kinnoull, a parish of SE Perthshire, consisting of a main body and three detached sections, and having an area of 3843 ¾ acres, of which 48 are foreshore, 149½ are water, and 2357 belong to the detached sections. The main body, containing the Bridgend suburb of Perth, has an utmost length and breadth of 2¼ and 17/8 miles, and is bounded N by Scone, SE by Kinfauns, and W by the Tay, flowing 1½ mile southward along the boundary with Perth parish, and cleft in twain by Moncrieff or Friarton island. The surface sinks by the river to 30 feet above sea-level, and rises eastward thence to 729 feet on wooded Kinnoull Hill, which, elsewhere easy of access, presents on its southern or Kinfauns side a frontage of rugged basaltic cliff, not so unlike the Salisbury Craigs of Edinburgh. From Perth its summit is gained by a winding carriage-road, called Montagu's Walk after the Duke of Montagu, who was in Scotland when it was formed; and that summit commands a magnificent prospect, by Pennant entitled ` the glory of Scotland.' Near the Windy Gowl, a steep and hollow descent betwixt two tops of the hill, is a nine-times-repeating echo; and on the hill-face is the Dragon Hole, a cave where Wallace is said to have lain concealed, and where Beltane fires formerly were kindled. The base of the hill has yielded many fine agates; and a diamond is said to have gleamed from its cliffs by night, till a marksman, firing at it with a ball of chalk, was able next day to find its whereabouts-a tale that is told of a dozen other localities. One detached section, with an utmost length and breadth of 27/8 miles and 1 mile, is bounded NW and N by Scone, NE by Kilspindie, and on all other sides by Kinfauns. Its contains the mansions of Balthayock and Murrayshall, 3 miles E by S, and 3 NE of Perth; and rises north-north-westward from 190 feet to 700 near New Mains and 916 near Twomile House. A smaller section, containing Inchyra village, 1 mile SW of Glencarse station, is bounded NW, N, and NE by Kinfauns, E by St Madoes, and SW for 1¾ mile by the Tay, from which the surface rises ¾ mile inland to Pans Hill (343 feet) on the northern boundary. The third and smallest section, containing Balbeggie village, 5½ miles NE of Perth, is bounded SE by Kilspindie, and on all other sides by St Martins. It has an utmost length and breadth of 1¼ mile and 6½ furlongs, and attains a summit altitude of 389 feet. The surface, thus, of nearly all the parish consists of sides, shoulders, and summits of the south-western Sidlaws; but the Inchyra section comprises part of the western extremity of the low, flat, fertile Carse of Gowrie. Trap is the principal rock, but Old Red sandstone, including a compact and durable variety of a greyish-red colour, abounds in various parts, and has been largely quarried. The soil is of almost every variety, and ranges from strong argillaceous alluvium on the carse to poor moorish earth on parts of the hills. Rather less than one-sixth of the entire area is under wood, nearly all the rest being either arable or pastoral. Kinnoull barony, extending along the Tay's left bank opposite Perth, gave the title of Earl in 1633 to George Hay, Viscount Dupplin, who, dying next year, was buried in an aisle of the old parish church, St Constantine's, where a life-size marble statue shows him vested as Lord Chancellor of Scotland. Of Kinnoull Castle, ¼ mile to the S, some vestiges remained till the close of last century. Seven proprietors hold each an annual value of £500 and upwards, 17 of between £100 and £500, 48 of from £50 to £100, and 46 of from £20 to £50. Kinnoull is in the presbytery of Perth and synod of Perth and Stirling; the living is worth £477. The present church, built in 1826 at a cost of £4000 from designs by Burn, is a handsome Gothic edifice, with over 1000 sittings. At Balbeggie is a U.P. church (1832; 350 sittings); and 2 public schools, Balbeggie and Kinnoull, with respective accommodation for 120 and 350 children, had (1881) an average attendance of 82 and 322, and grants of £85, 10s. and £268, 2s. Valuation (1866) £6136, 11s. 10d., (l883) £7198, 5s. 6d. Pop. (1801) 1927, (183l) 2957, (1861) 3219, (1871) 3108, (1881) 3461, of whom 2727 were in Perth parliamentary burgh.—Ord. Sur., sh. 48, 1868.
(Frances Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
Kinnoull, par., SE. Perthshire, on left bank of river Tay, 3646 ac., pop. 3461; contains the Bridgend suburb of Perth; Kinnoull Hill, with magnificent prospect of river Tay, is 729 ft. high; on W. side of hill is a Roman Catholic Redemptory; of Kinnoull Castle no vestige remains.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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Balbeggie, a village in a detached section of Kinnoul parish, Perthshire, 5½ miles NE of Perth. It has a post office under Perth, a United Presbyterian church, and a public school, which, with accommodation for 120 children, had (1879) an average attendance of 68, and a grant of £58,13s.
(Frances Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
Barnhill, an estate, with a hamlet and a mansion, in Kinnoul parish, Perthshire. The hamlet has a post office under Perth.
(Frances Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
Bridgend, an eastern suburb of Perth, in Kinnoull parish, on the left bank of the Tay. Here lived the paternal aunt of Mr Ruskin.. ` She had, ' he writes, ` a garden full of gooseberry bushes, sloping down to the Tay, with a door opening to the water, which ran past it clear brown over the pebbles 3 or 4 feet deep; an infinite thing for a child to look down into. ' See Kinnoull and Perth.
(Frances Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
Inchyra, a village and a mansion in a detached section of Kinnoull parish, SE Perthshire. The village stands on the left bank of the river Tay, 1 mile SW of Glencarse station on the Dundee and Perth section of the Caledonian, and 5 miles ESE of Perth. It has a good harbour, which admits vessels of considerable burden, and a ferry communicating with Fingask in Rhynd parish. Inchyra House, ¾ mile N by E of the village, is a handsome edifice in the Grecian style, with finely wooded grounds.—Ord. Sur., sh. 48, 1868.
(Frances Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
Murrayshall, a mansion in a detached section of Kinnoull parish, Perthshire, 3 miles NE of Perth. Built by Sir Andrew Murray in 1664, and restored in 1864, it is the seat of Henry Stewart Murray-Graham, Esq. (b. 1848; suc. 1881), who holds 1913 acres in the shire, valued at £2679 per annum. Murrayshall Hill (918 feet), a prominent summit of the Sidlaws, is crowned by an obelisk erected in 1850 to the memory of Lord Lynedoch.—Ord. Sur., sh. 48, 1868.
(Frances Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
Balbeggie, vil., Kinnoul Par., E. Perthshire, 5 miles NE. of Perth; P.O.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
Barnhill, hamlet and seat, Kinnoull par., Perthshire, on left bank of river Tay, opposite Perth; P.O.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
Bridgend, an E. suburb of Perth city, Kinnoull par., on left bank of river Tay.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
Murrayshall.-- seat, in detached portion of Kinnoull par., Perthshire, 3 miles NE. of Perth; Murrayshall Hill (918 ft.) is crowned by an obelisk erected in 1850 to the memory of Lord Lynedoch.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
Balthayock, detached section of Kinnoul par., with seat and ruined fortalice, in co. and near Perth.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))