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Craigie
CRAIGIE, a parish in the district of Kyle,
Ayrshire, to the north-west of Ayr. It is somewhat of a triangular
figure, and is bounded on the north by the parishes of Dundonald and
Riccarton; on the east by the parishes of Galston and Mauchline; on
the south-east by the parish of Tarbolton; and on west by the parishes
of Monkton and Symington. Its extreme length is 7 miles, and its
average breadth 1¼ mile. Most of the surface is level, arable,
fertile, and well-enclosed. The eminences are not high, and afford
fine pasturage. From a hill 500 feet above the level of the sea, a
spectator looks round on a richly cultivated beautiful expanse of 100
square miles, and sees Benlomond, and several of the Grampians,
raising their lofty summits toward the north, and the ridges of Jura
serrating the horizon on the west, and the hills of Ireland dimly
merging from the sea on the south. Coal is worked, and limestone
abounds. Much attention is paid to the dairy. The chief antiquity is
the ruins of the old castle of Craigie. Population, in 1801, 786; in
1831, 824. Houses 123. Assessed property, in 1815, £8,511. - Craigie,
formerly a vicarage, is in the presbytery of Ayr, and synod of Glasgow
and Ayr. Patron, Campbell of Craigie. Stipend £247 7s. 10d.
Unappropriated teinds £360 4s. 1d. Schoolmaster's salary £34 4s. 4½d.,
with £18 school-fees. There is a school not parochial. Craigie
includes part of the suppressed parish of Barnwell.
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