Kirkgunzeon
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Kirkgunȝeon (Scottish Gaelic: Cill Fhionnain) is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland. The village is 10.4 miles (16.7 km) south west of Dumfries and 4.1 miles (6.6 km) north east of Dalbeattie. The civil parish is in the former county of Kirkcudbrightshire, and is bounded by the parishes Lochrutton to the north, Urr to the west, Colvend and Southwick to the south and New Abbey to the east.
Kirkgunȝeon
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Kirkgunzeon | |
Location within Dumfries and Galloway | |
OS grid reference | NX865666 |
Council area | |
Lieutenancy area | |
Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | DUMFRIES |
Postcode district | DG2 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
UK Parliament | |
Scottish Parliament | |
54°58′58″N 3°46′17″W |
Kirkgunzeon is recorded in c.1200 as Kirkwynnin.[1] Wynnin represents a Cumbric form of the Gaelic Finnén, a diminutive of Findbarr.[1] William J. Watson takes this to be Findbarr of Moyville.[1] Thomas Clancy argues the name commemorates Uinniau a local British saint, not recorded in literary records.[2]