Kirkmaiden, Wigtownshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Kirkmaiden. You may be able to find further references to Kirkmaiden in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Kirkmaiden ancient parish Bartholomew
Kirkmaiden parish Bartholomew
Kirkmaiden a small pre-Reformation parish Groome
Kirkmaiden a parish Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Kirkmaiden.

Place Type of entry Source
Balgown a small bay Groome
Castle Clanyard a ruined tower Groome
Castle Clanyard ruined tower Bartholomew
Clanyard a bay Groome
Clanyard bay Bartholomew
Crammag or Crummag a precipitous headland Groome
Curgie small bay Bartholomew
Curgie a small bay Groome
Drumore a seaport village Groome
Dunman a rocky hill Groome
Galloway, Mull of precipitous promontory Bartholomew
Galloway, Mull of a precipitous headland Groome
Laggantulloch headland Bartholomew
Logan an estate Groome
Logan seat Bartholomew
Port Logan seaport village Bartholomew
Port-Logan a seaport village Groome
Portnessock Bay a bay Groome
Portnessock Bay Bartholomew

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Drummore 0 3
Scares Islands 0 1
Stoneykirk 0 2
Stairhaven 0 1
Rhinns 0 3
Dunragit 0 2
Portpatrick 2 2
Soulseat 0 3
Old Luce 0 4
Eldrig 0 2
Port William 0 2
Castle Kennedy 0 2
Inch 0 2
Mochrum 0 2
Stranraer 1 2
Innermessan 0 2
Machers 0 2
New Luce 0 4
Leswalt 0 2
Glasserton 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Kirkmaiden. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
KIRKMAIDEN John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

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  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.