Cairnsmore of Fleet, a mountain on the mutual border of Minnigaff and Kirkmabreck parishes, SW Kirkcudbrightshire, 6¼ miles E of Newton-Stewart. It extends about 4 miles from NNW to SSE; it has two summits, the one in Minnigaff, the other in Kirkmabreck, with altitudes of respectively 2331 and 2152 feet above sea-level; it sends off to the E a projection, called the Knee of Cairnsmore,-to the S an abutment, called the Door of Cairnsmore, -to the W a spur, 1250 feet high, called Cranmery Hill; and it commands a superb prospect along the seaboard and across the waters of the Solway Firth. Cairnsmore mansion stands near the westernbase of the mountain, on the S border of Minnigaff.
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