Craigieburn, an estate, with a mansion, in Moffat parish, Dumfriesshire, on the right bank of Moffat Water, 2¾ miles E of Moffat town. Craigieburn Wood was a favourite haunt of the poet Burns about 1789, the birthplace of Jean Lorimer, his 'Chloris. '
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