Queenshill, a mansion in Tongland parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, 2 miles N of Tarff station. It was the residence and death-place of James Beaumont Neilson, C.B. (1792-1863), inventor of the famous hot-blast, to whose memory a pyramid, 35 feet high, was erected in 1883. His son, Walter Montgomerie Neilson, Esq. (b. 1819), holds 1822 acres in the shire, valued at £1559 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 5, 1857.

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