Cairnryan (Scots: The Cairn; Scottish Gaelic: Machair an Sgithich) is a small village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It lies on the eastern shore of Loch Ryan, 6 miles (10 km) north of Stranraer. The village is important in maritime history, with two ferry services connecting Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Population: 3,757
Latitude: 54° 58' 15.74" N
Longitude: -5° 01' 11.35" W
The Bladnoch is a river in Wigtownshire in the Machars of Galloway in southwest Scotland. One of the earliest descriptions of it is given by Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw and Sir David Dunbar in an appendix to Andrew Symson's work "A Large Description…
New Luce is a civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It lies in the traditional county of Wigtownshire, and is about 10 miles (16 km) in length and 5 miles (8.0 km) in breath, being the upper part of the original Glenluce Parish…
Loch Trool is a body of water in Galloway, south-west Scotland lying in Glen Trool.
Loch Enoch is a multi-basin loch in Galloway to the east of Merrick and south of Mullwharchar. The loch is situated in a granite basin and has several small islands and some beaches on its shore. The sharp granite sand of these beaches was collected…
Glen Trool (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann an t-Sruthail) is a glen in the Southern Uplands, Galloway, Scotland. It contains Loch Trool which is fed by several burns and drained by the Water of Trool. North of Glen Trool is Merrick, the highest mountain in…
Elrig (Scottish Gaelic: An Eileirg, meaning the deer run) is a Clachan in Dumfries and Galloway Council, Scotland.
The lands of Daldowie in Scotland lie astride the River Clyde on the south and the North Calder Water to the east, and stretch to the present area of Baillieston in the north.
Corserine is the highest point of the Rhinns of Kells range in the Southern Uplands of southern Scotland. The usual route of ascent is from the car park at Forest Lodge to the east of the hill via Loch Harrow and North Gairy Top. Forest Lodge is a s…
Colmonell is a small village and civil parish in the Stinchar Valley, South Ayrshire, Scotland.
Clatteringshaws Loch is a reservoir in the Dumfries and Galloway district of southern Scotland.
The Castle of St. John is an early 16th-century L-plan tower house in the centre of Stranraer, in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland. It was built by the Adairs of Kilhilt c.1510. It has been used as a home, a court, a prison, and as a milita…
Cairnsmore of Fleet is a mountain in the Scottish Lowlands, on the edges of Galloway Forest Park.
Barholm Castle is a tower house located five miles south-west of Gatehouse of Fleet, in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland. The tower dates back to the late 15th century, and has been recently restored from a roofless state into a family home…
Ballystrudder or Ballystruder (from Irish Baile Strudair, meaning "Strudar's townland") is a small village and townland (of 255 acres) on Islandmagee in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Belfast Lower and the …
Whitehead railway station serves Whitehead in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
The River Stinchar is a river in South Ayrshire, Scotland.
The Range of the Awful Hand is a range of hills in the Southern Uplands of Scotland named due to their resemblance to the fingers of a hand.
North West Castle is a 19th-century four star country house hotel in Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, in the south west of Scotland.