Knocknalling, an estate, with a modern mansion, in Kells parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, near the right bank of the Ken and the left of confluent Pulharrow Burn, 6 miles NNW of New Galloway. Its owner, John Lawson Kennedy, Esq. (b. 1816), holds 2646 acres in the shire, valued at £1015 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 9, 1863.

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