Old Photograph Kirkconnel Dumfries and Galloway Scotland.

Old photograph of people standing outside cottages in Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Life changed dramatically for this small Scottish town in the 1890s when a coal pit was opened at Fauldheld. Coal had always been mined in the district before, but never in large quantities. From then on coal dominated the life of the little town. The coal industry moved away in recent decades, and with it much of the population. Whether Saint Conal was an Irish monk or the son of a local shepherd befriended and educated by Glasgow’s Saint Mungo, Christianity came early to this part of Nithsdale.



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