Kirkandrews, a village and an ancient parish on the coast of Kirkcudbrightshire. The village, at the head of little Kirkandrews Bay, 7¾ miles WSW of Kirkcudbright, when Symson wrote (1684) was a place of some note, long the scene of an annual fair, with horse and foot races, but is now reduced to the condition of a small picturesque hamlet. The parish was annexed, in 1618 or earlier, to Borgue; its church, an edifice of the 15th or the 16th century, is now a ruin. Within the graveyard are buried a martyred Covenanter (1685) and William Nicholson (1783-1843), the Galloway pedlarpoet.Ord. Sur., sh. 5, 1857.
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