Kirkcowan
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Kirkcowan, a village and a parish of N Wigtownshire. The village stands on the left bank of Tarf Water, 7¼ miles NW of Wigtown, and 3 furlongs E by S of Kirkcowan station on the Dumfries and Portpatrick branch of the Caledonian railway, this being 6¼ miles WSW of Newton-Stewart. Serving in a small way as a centre of country trade, it finds employment in two neighbouring woollen mills, and has a post office, with money order, savings' bank, and railway telegraph departments, 3 hotels, and a bowling-green. Pop. (1861) 734, (1871) 693, (1881) 671.Kirkcowan is in the presbytery of Wigtown and synod of Galloway; the living is worth £337. The parish church, at the village, is a handsome edifice of 1834, containing 400 sittings. There is also a U.P. church; and two public schools, Darnow and Kirkcowan, with respective accommodation for 35 and 155 children, had (1881) an average attendance of 15 and 142, and grants of £25, 1s. and £127, 11s. Valuation (1860) ?7079, (1883) £10,349, 4s. 9d. Pop. (1801) 787, (1831) 1374, (1861) 1434, (1871) 1352, (1881) 1307.
F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4)
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- Kirkcowan, Church of Scotland
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