Hype for the Future 74D: Galloway and the Scottish Lowlands 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Overview The region known as Galloway, largely associated with the southwest of the country of Scotland, is related to the name for the central City of Glasgow located in Lanarkshire. Outside Lanarkshire, however, the region is also quite notable in a number of surrounding counties, including Ayrshire, Dumfries-shire, Renfrewshire, and possibly Kirkcudbrightshire. Elsewhere in the region, the significance of communities is largely determined by facing the Province of Ulster in Ireland across […]

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Hype for the Future 74D: Galloway and the Scottish Lowlands 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Overview The region known as Galloway, largely associated with the southwest of the country of Scotland, is related to the name for the central City of Glasgow located in Lanarkshire. Outside Lanar…

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Torhousekie Stone Circle in Galloway. The central setting of three stones is reputed to be the grave of the mythical King Galdus.
#StandingStoneSunday #Galloway #Wigtownshire #history #legend #folklore #ancient #Photography

#Jesus take the wheel : the various sects of #Presbytarians ( even the #Kirk ) had a declining congregation in #Whithorn #Wigtownshire in #DumfriesAndGalloway #Scotland ), so the #church was closed in 1947 and converted into a repair and petrol #garage

This has since expanded to a white building on the right, the former church now appears to be used for #MOT testing bays and extra vehicle ramps.

As #Scotland was still quite #religious then, the faithful must have still had nearby churches (there seems to be another 0,5 km away) - although this also shows just how long ago #cars also started to become objects of worship across Britain!

Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Jean Brown in 1706 in Penninghame.
Also accused: John McNairn.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43394546
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/EGD/2377&search_string=lastname

#ScottishHistory #WitchTrials #Wigtownshire

Jean Brown

accused of witchcraft