Rullion Green, a place in Glencorse parish, Edinburghshire, on the eastern slope of the Pentland Hills, 1¾ mile NNW of Penicuik. On the evening of 28 Nov. 1666, it was the scene of the defeat of 900 Covenanters, under Col. Wallace, by Sir Thomas Dalyell of Binns; and a monument is supposed to mark the site of the battle. Dr Hill Burton, however, remarks that 'neither the spot itself, nor any part of the Pentlands close to it, corresponds with the description of the ground taken by Wallace-a ridge running N and S, and rising abruptly on the N end.,-Ord. Sur., sh. 32, 1857.
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