Corsock, a small village and a quoad sacra parish in Kirkcudbrightshire. The village stands on the eastern verge of Parton parish and on the right bank of Urr Water, 6 miles NE of Parton station, and 10 N of Castle-Douglas; at it are a post office under Dalbeattie, a temperance hotel, the quoad sacra church (1839), a Free church, and a public school, which, with accommodation for 119 children, had (1880) an average attendance of 97, and a grant of £78,4s. The parish, comprising portions of the civil parishes of Parton, Balmaclellan, and Kirkpatrick-Durham, contains also Nether Corsock hamlet, 2 miles S by W of the village; and Corsock Loch (2¼ x 12/3 furl.), ¾ mile W by S. On Hall croft farm stood Corsock Castle, the residence of Robert Nelson, the Covenanting confessor; and Corsock House was the seat of the late Mr Murray Dunlop, M. P. for Greenock, to whose memory a granite obelisk has been erected. Corsock is in the presbytery of Kirkcudbright and synod of Galloway; the minister's stipend is £120. Pop. (1861) 544, (1871) 563, (1881) 551.Ord. Sur., sh. 9,1863.
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