KIRRIEMUIR
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V15,
Page 834
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
KIRRIEMUIR
, a police burgh of Forfarshire, Scotland
.
Pop
.
(Igor), 4096
.
It is situated on a height above the glen through which the Gairie flows, 64 m
.
N.W. of Forfar by a branch line of the Caledonian railway of which it is the terminus
.
There are libraries, a public See also: - HALL
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
and a park
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The staple industry is linen- weaving
.
The hand- loom lingered longer here than in any other place in Scotland and is not yet wholly extinct
.
The Rev
.
Dr Alexander Whyte (b
.
1837) and J
.
M
.
Barrie (b
.
186o) are natives, the latter having made the town famous under the name of " Thrums." The original Secession church—the kirk of the Auld Lichts—was founded in 18o6 and rebuilt in 1893
.
Kinnordy, 12 m
.
N.W., was the birthplace of Sir Charles Lyell the geologist; and Cortachy castle, a fine mansion in the Scottish Baronial style, about 4 M
.
N., is the seat of the earl df Airlie
.
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