Cally, an estate, with a mansion, in Girthon parish, Kirkcudbrightshire. The mansion, standing amid an extensive park, 1 mile S of Gatehouse-of-Fleet, was built wholly of granite in 1763, from a design by Rt. Milne; about 1835 was greatly improved; includes a splendid marble vestibule, with some fine pieces of sculpture; and contains a noble collection of pictures, by Clande Lorraine, Poussin, Velasquez, Murillo, Dürer, Sir Joshua Reynolds, etc., as also the splendid Sèvres wedding casket of Marie Antoinette. The old House of Cally, ½ mile to the N, is now an ivy-clad ruin. The owner, Horatio G. Murray-Stewart of Broughton (b. 1834; suc. 1835), holds 1584 acres in the shire, valued at £1707 per annum.

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