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Auld Luice (English: Old Luce) is a ceevil pairish in the historical coonty o Wigtounshire in Dumfries an Gallowa, Scotland. The pairish is aboot 10 mile lang and 8 mile wide, an conteens 40,350 acre.[1]
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It wis in auncient times named Glenluice that wis dividen intae twa pairshes, the northren ane name't New Luice, an the soothren ane name't Auld Luice.[2] [3] In 1661 the twa pairishes o Auld an New Luice wis reunitit for a time, an whan the 1684 Wigtounshire Pairish Leet wis recordit, it leetit baith Auld Luice an New Luice unner "Glenluice Pairish".[4] In 1688, efter the Glorious Revolution, the separation o Auld Luice an New Luice becam permanent. Auld Luice haes a community cooncil.[5]
The toun o Glenluice an Glenluice Kirk is in Auld Luice Pairish, as is Glenluice Aibey. In 1846 the Topographical Dictionary o Scotland, Samuel Lewis wrate that the veelage o Glenluice wis situatit on the road leadin fae Newtoun Stewart tae Stranrawer. "The church, erected in 1814, is a commodious edifice, and situated close to the village. The members of the United Secession Church have a place of worship. There are several other schools, and one is supported by the Hay family."[6]
Dunragit (Scots Gaelic: Dùn Reicheit) is a veelage on the A75 road atween Stranrawer an Glenluice in Auld Luice. The place name haes been said tae derive fae Din Rheged meanin "Fort o Rheged". This wad refer til the Brythonic Daurk Ages Kinrick o Rheged that seems tae hae existit somewhaur in this aurie o the Mairch atween England an Scotland atween the 5t an 8t centurys. It is possible that this wis ane o the ryal sites uised bi the kings o Rheged an it his been suggestit as the site o the unidentified Northren Ryal Coort Penrhyn Rhionedd, recordit in the Welsh Triads. Thare is a possible Roman cremation seemetry an twa castle mottes in the veelage. The ex-King o Dublin an Man, Echmarcach mac Ragnaill, haed the title Rex Innarenn ("Keeng o the Rhins") attributit tae him on his deith in 1065. The wastren airts o Gallowa haed been firm in line wi the Isle o Man, an Norse an Gaelic-Norse dounset names fae the 10t an 11t centurys is spreid aw alang the coastal launds o soothwast Scotland. Glenwhan Gairden haed been creatit in Dunragit syne 1979, and is nouadays appen til the public.
Carscreugh Castle (o the Yerl o Stair in 1782) wis the hame o Janet Dalrymple, that Sir Walter Scott steidit his heroine Lucy, the Bride of Lammermoor (that becam Lucia di Lammermoor in Gaetano Donizetti's opera o the same name) on. Janet fell in luve wi an in saicret haund-festit til a sillerless local man, Archibald Rutherford. Her paurents bitter cried again this romance an gart her tae renunce her vou an gart her tae mairy anither man fae a walthie local faimily, Sir David Dunbar o Baldoon Castle near Wigtoun. Houiver something dreidfu happent on her waddin nicht that endit in her deith an the woundin o her guidman, that ever efterwart refuised tae lat ken tae onybody whait hid occurt that nicht.
Fae Glenluice Saunds there hae been rekivert "mair objects o antiquity nor fae ony aurie o similar extent in Scotland". The relicts range fae neolithic tae medieval times.[7][8]
St John's Chaipel at The Knock o Luice wis at ae time a chaipel o St John. The tenant, Mr Wilson, telt Rev. George Wilson o Glenluice that he remuived three perqueer streetit fluirs, the tane abuin the tither. This shawed a lang occupation.[9]
Rev. George Wilson o Glenluice, in his Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to Ayrshire and Galloway, tells that Wigtounshire conteens aboot saxty forts; 15 in Mochrum, 4 in Glasserton, 10 in Whithorn, an several mair in the ither pairishes not name't in his leet. He leets the follaein forts in Auld Luice:[10][11]
Droughdool Mote or Mund, sooth Dunragit veelage, has a steid 156 fit wide, is 30 fit heich, wi a level tap 40 fit wide.[23]
Dunragit henge atween the Mund an Dunragit veelage is ane o the maist important Stane Age sites in Scotland. It is a pit define't cursus moniment, datin fae Neolithic an Bronze age times. It wis first diskivert bi aerial photography in 1992. The Dunragit Excavations Project archaeological howkin haes appluised the remeens o three gey muckle concentric timmer circles; the ooter circle wis 984 fit wide, amwast sax times the size o Stonehenge. Built aroond 2500 BC(E), this gey muckle moniment wis a ceremonial centre an a meetin place for soothwast Scotlands early fermin communitys.[24][25]
Whitefield Loch his twa crannogs: Dormans Island crannog o 250 BC(E); an Tree Island crannog. The latter is noo on dry laund acause o the fawen watter level in the loch.[26] Whitefield is near Machermore, the auncient castle o the MacDowall Clan.
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