Trinity-Gask, a Strathearn parish of Perthshire, whose church stands 35/8 miles S by E of Madderty station, 7 ¾ ENE of Crieff, and 6 N by E of Auchterarder, under which there is a post office. It is bounded N by Madderty, E by Findo-Gask, SE by Auchterarder, SW by Blackford, W by Muthill, and NW by the Innerpeffray section of Monzie. Its utmost length, from E to W, is 51/8 miles; its breadth varies between 5 furlongs and 3¼ miles; and its area is 5784¼ acres, of which 95 ½ are water. The Earn winds 65/8 miles eastward - for the most part along or near to the southern border; and its sub-affluent, Cowgask Burn, flows north-eastward along part of the Madderty boundary. Sinking beside the Earn to less than 50 feet above sea-level, the surface thence rises northward, so as to form a gently sloping bank, with a summit altitude of 306 feet at a point ¾ mile E by N of the church. This higher ground commands a fine view of the beautiful strath and its hill-screens; but elsewhere the parish is nearly flat, and has but a slight elevation above the river. The Earn, over all its connection with the parish, flows in beautiful sinuosities between pleasant banks, richly adorned in many places with natural and planted wood. A spring called Trinity Well, a little to the S of the manse, -had great celebrity in pre-Reformation times for performing cures, and for affording protection against plague and witchcraft. A mineral spring was discovered about 1850 in a marshy place near Cowgask Burn. Its waters possess properties similar in many respects to those of Airthrey at Bridge of Allan. A trap dike runs from E to W, parallel with the northern boundary, and occasionally rises into rugged ridges. A soft red argillaceous rock forms a sort of chasm or ravine for the Earn in the W, but, becoming mingled with mica, passes into sandstone in the centre and E - the Old Red which prevails throughout the strath. The soil is very various. Nearly 1000 acres are under wood; and the rest of the area is mostly in tillage. The old Roman road from the Stormont to Ardoch runs from E to W through the N of the parish, near whose highest point long stood the curiously-sculptured ` Borestone, ' 5 ½ feet high, which in 1884 was removed to Moncreiffe. Gascon Hall and St Bean's church of Kinkell are noticed separately, as also are the mansions of Colquhalzie and Millearne Four proprietors hold each an annual value of £500 and upwards, and five of between £100 and £500. Trinity-Gask is in the presbytery of Auchterarder and the synod of Perth and Stirling; the living is worth £266. The present parish comprises the ancient parishes of Kinkell and Easter Gask, the latter of which had a second place of worship at a spot still known as Chapelhill; and the union of the three churches into one parish is said to have given rise to the name of Trinity-Gask. The local pronunciation, however, is `Tarnty.' The parish church, built in 1770, contains 195 sittings. Kinkell U.P. church, containing 800 sittings, was built about 1790; and the public school, with accommodation for 54 children, had (1884) an average attendance of 38, and a grant of £47, 2s. Valuation (1866) £6469, (1885) £6838, 8s. 7d. Pop. (1801) 796, (1831) 620, (1861) 488, (1871) 415, (1881) 396.—Ord. Sur., sh. 47, 1869.
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