Glenmuir or Glenmuirshaw, a wild moorish vale on the eastern border of Auchinleck parish, Ayrshire, at the head of Glenmore Water, near the meeting-point with Lanark and Dumfries shires, and immediately S of Cairntable. It contains ruins of an ancient baronial fortalice; and it was the scene, at Dalblair, of the boyhood of the author of the Cameronian's Dream, beginning, -
'In Glenmuir's wild solitudes, lengthened and deep
Were the whistling of plovers and bleating of sheep.'
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