Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kirkconnel

Kirkconnel, ancient par., now in Kirkpatrick-Fleming par., SE. Dumfriesshire; the churchyard, on Kirtle Water, 2 miles NE. of Kirtlebridge, contams the grave of "Fair Helen of Kirkconnel Lee".


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ancient parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kirkconnel ScoP       Dumfries Shire ScoCnty
Place: Kirkconnel

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