Bargrennan, a post office hamlet in Minnigaff parish, W Kirkcudbrightshire, and a quoad sacra parish partly also in Penninghame, Wigtownshire. The hamlet lies on the Cree's left bank, 9 miles N by W of its post-town Newton-Stewart; at it are the manse and the neat little church (1839; stipend, £120). Two public schools, Bargrennan and Knowe, with respective accommodation for 60 and 48 children, had (1879) an average attendance of 21 and 29, and grants of £37,7s. 6d. and £38,2s. Pop. of q. s. parish, in the presbytery of Wigtown and synod of Galloway, (1871) 428, of whom 228 were in Penninghame, (1881) 366.
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