A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . ; but the quarries have beendiscontinued for some time. Pebbles of green serpentine,also, are found along the shore ; they are susceptible ofa high polish,and are formed into various elegant quoad sacra parish of lona, erected by authority ofact of parliament, comprises, besides the island, a distri
A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . ; but the quarries have beendiscontinued for some time. Pebbles of green serpentine,also, are found along the shore ; they are susceptible ofa high polish,and are formed into various elegant quoad sacra parish of lona, erected by authority ofact of parliament, comprises, besides the island, a districtof Mull containing a population of 620 persons : it is inthe presbytery of Mull and synod of Argyll. The minis-ters stipend is £120, paid by government; with a manse,and a glebe valued at £1. 10. per annum : patron, theCrown. lona church, erected in 1828, at a cost of£700, is a neat structure containing 266 sittings. Themembers of the Free Church have a place of worship. Aschool, for which an appropriate building was erected bythe ducal family of Argyll, is supported by government;and in the Mull district of the quoad sacra parish is aschool maintained by the Society for Propagating Chris-tian Knowledge. IRONGRAY, in the county of Kirkcudbright.—See Obverse. Reverse. Seal of Irvine. IRVINE, a royal burgh, and a parish, in the districtof CoNNiNGHAME, county of Ayr, 26 miles (W. S. W.)from Glasgow, and 685 (W. by S.) from Edinburgh ; theparish containing 5214 inhabitants, of whom 4594 are 4 U I R V I I R V I resident within the burgh ; exclusively of 3053 in theparish of Dundonald, into which the town extends, thetotal population of the town being 647. This placederives its name from the river on which it is situated,and appears to have attained a high degree of importanceat a very early period. The inhabitants obtained fromAlexander II. a charter conferring upon the town theprivileges of a royal burgh ; and a charter confirming allprevious grants wa
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