Glenlee, a mansion in Kells parish, NE Kirkcudbrightshire, near the right bank of the Ken, 3 miles NW of New Galloway. Much enlarged in 1822, it stands in a level park, adorned with fine old oaks, and was the seat of the two eminent judges, father and son, Sir Thomas Miller (1717-89) and Sir William (1755-1846), who both bore the title of Lord Glenlee, and who were ancestors of Sir William Miller of Barskimming. The present proprietor of Glenlee, George Maxwell, Esq. (b. 1856; suc. 1866), holds 15,090 acres in the shire, valued at £2736 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh 9,1863.

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