Gairney Bridge, a farm at the NE verge of Cleish parish, Kinross-shire, on the left bank of Gairney Water, 1¾ mile SSE of Kinross. In a public house here, on the site of the farmstead stables, Ebenezer Erskine and the three other fathers of the Secession formed themselves into a presbytery, 15 Dec. 1733; and on the site of the farmhouse itself, the young poet Michael Bruce (1746-67) taught a small school in 1765-66.—Ord. Sur., sh. 40,1867.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)