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Kirkmaiden (whiles Maidenkirk; Scots Gaelic: Cill M'Eudan) is a smaw clachan in the historical coonty o Wigtounshire, in Dumfries an Gallowa, Scotland. It is locatit aboot 17 mile sooth o Stranrawer. It gies its name til Kirikmaiden pairish that kivers the soothren end o the Rhins o Gallowa peninsula.
Until Union wi England, Scotland's equivalent o the phrase "Land's End tae John O' Groats wis aften "John O'Groats tae Maidenkirk", as Maidenkirk wis conseedert tradeetional the maist soothren airt o that kintra. It can be fund in the sang The Lady of Kenmure:
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