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Dunkeld and Dowally, a Strathtay united parish of central Perthshire, containing the villages of Dowally and Kindallachan, and also part of the town of Dunkeld, which part, however, lies detached from the main body, a little to the SE. Bounded N by Logierait, E by Clunie and Caputh, and S and W by Little Dunkeld, it has an utmost length from N to S of 61/4 miles, a varying breadth from E to W of ¾ mile and 41/8 miles, and an area of 9825½ acres, of which only 181/6 belong to the Dunkeld portion. The remaining 9807½ acres belonging to Dowally include 369 of water, and comprise a detached section, the barony of Dalcapon, which, lying mainly on the left bank of the Tummel, 1½ mile N of Ballinluig Junction, and surrounded on three sides by Logierait, has a length from SW to NE of 4 miles, with a varying width of 2½ and 7 furlongs. The Tay flows 6½ miles south-south-eastward along all the boundary with Little Dunkeld, and receives Kindallachan and Dowally Burns from the interior. In the interior, too, are Loch Ordie (5 x 31/3 furl.), Lochan na Beinne (1½ x ¾ furl.), St Colme's Loch (2 x 1 furl.), and Dowally Loch (1¾ x ¾ furl.), whilst at the meeting-point of Logierait, Moulin, and the Dalcapon section lies Loch Broom (5½ x 2 furl.). Along the Tay the surface declines to less than 200 feet above sea-level, thence rising eastward to 1440 feet near Lochan na Beinne and 1622 at Chapel Hill. Dorothy Wordsworth has left us her impression of this parish, through which she drove with her brother on 8 Sept. 1804: - `We travelled down the Tummel till it is lost in the Tay, and then, in the same direction, continued our course along the vale of the Tay, which is very wide for a considerable way, but gradually narrows, and the river, always a fine stream, assumes more dignity and importance. Two or three miles before we reached Dunkeld, we observed whole hill-sides, the property of the Duke of Athole, planted with fir trees till they are lost among the rocks near the tops of the hills. In forty or fifty years these plantations will be very fine,-a prediction abundantly verified, woods, mostly of larch, now clothing the entire parish, with the exception of barely one-fortieth in pasture and little more than a tenth under crops. The Queen, too, remarks in her Journal on the beautiful windings of the Tay and the richly-wooded height, rocky and pyramidal, of Craigiebarns. A large white building, St Colme's, 7 furlongs SSE of Dowally and 4 miles NNW of Dunkeld, is the model farm of the Dowager Duchess of Athole; and the Duke of Athole is the sole proprietor. This parish is in the presbytery of Dunkeld and synod of Perth and Stirling; the living is worth £232. The churches are noticed under Dowdily and Dunkeld; and Dowally public, Dunkeld Duchess of Athole's, and Dunkeld Royal schools, with respective accommodation for 107, 135, and 151 children, had (1880) an average attendance of 42, 85, and 58, and grants of £48, 17s., £86, 5s. 6d., and £54, 1s. Valuation (1882) £3356, 10s. 8d. Pop. of parish (1801) 1857, (1831) 2037, (l841) 1752, (1861) 97l, -(1871) 839; of Dunkeld registration district (1871) 881, (1881) 882.—Ord. Sur., shs. 55, 56, 47, 1869-70.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a Strathtay united parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Dunkeld and Dowally ScoP Perthshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Dunkeld |
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