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Encyclopedia Britannica



KILBIRNIE

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 790 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KILBIRNIE , a town in north Ayrshire,
Scotland
 , on the Garnock, 202 m. S.W. of Glasgow, with stations on the Glasgow &
South
 -Western and the Caledonian railways. Pop. (1901), 4571. The
industries
  include flax-spinning, rope works, engineering works, and manufactures of linen
thread
 , wincey, flannels and fishing-nets, and there are iron and steel works and coal mines in the vicinity. The parish church is of historical
interest
 , most of the building dating from the Reformation. In the churchyard are the recumbent effigies of Captain
Thomas
  Crawford of Jordanhill (d. 1603), who in 1575 effected the surprise of
Dumbarton
  Castle, and his lady. Near Kilbirnie Place, a modern
mansion
 , are the ruins of Kilbirnie Castle, an ancient seat of the earls of Crawford, destroyed by fire in 1757. About
m. E. is Kilbirnie Loch, 11 m.
long
 .


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