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Ordnance Survey - Kirkcudbright county, OS Name Books - Kirkcudbright county - Volume 151 - Parishes of Borgue, Kirkcudbright, Rerrick and Twynholm, OS1/20/151

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[Page] 111
Parish of Kirkcudbright

Form 136
Page - 278 - Grey Friars Monastery

At Kirkcudbright, there was
founded, in the reign of Alexander II
a Convent for Franciscan or Gray Friars
Chalmers Caledonia
Vol [Volume] III P [Page] 310
Spottiswood, 498

The general Assembly which sat in Edinburgh during the summer of 1564 petitioned Queen Mary
to grant the Friars' Church of Kirkcudbright to the magistrates to be used as a parish church
The Queen was pleased to comply with this request and the building then contained for the first
time a Protestant congregation. The Convent itself having suffered from the fury of the populace
was bestowed upon Sir Thomas McLellan of Bombie to afford him a site for a new residence.
This castle was created in 1582: it is now in ruins, but the walls remain almost entire etc. The late
Church of Kirkcudbright built in 1730 Stood upon the spot previously occupied by the Friar's Church.
Below the portions of it called the Old Aisle still remaining is the tomb in which the mortal remains
of the Maclellans were deposited "
See Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] 1845 Also Sinclairs Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] Vol [volume] II P. [Page] 28
Chalmers Caledonia vol [volume] III P. [Page] 310

Ordnance Survey - Kirkcudbright county, OS Name Books - Kirkcudbright county - Volume 151 - Parishes of Borgue, Kirkcudbright, Rerrick and Twynholm, OS1/20/151

This volume contains information on place names found in the parishes of Borgue, Kirkcudbright, Rerrick, and Twynholm.

Ordnance Survey - Kirkcudbright county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Kirkcudbright, which is in the south west of Scotland.

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