Old Travel Blog Photograph Parish Church Balmaghie Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Parish Church in Balmaghie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Balmaghie village, from the Scottish Gaelic Baile Mac Aoidh, was the seat of the McGhee family. It is bordered by the River Dee to the north and east. The River Dee is commonly known as the Black Water of Dee on the northern border, the name changes with the meeting of the Water of Ken to the north west and is then known as Loch Ken along the eastern border. Balmaghie parish borders Girthon to the west and Tongland and Twynholm to the south. Balmaghie church was built in 1794 and set on a small hillock in Balmaghie overlooking Loch Ken and opposite Crossmichael Kirk on the far bank. Samuel Rutherford Crockett, a Scottish novelist, was born the son of a farmer at Duchrae. Some of his works are set in the surrounding area. He is buried in Balmaghie churchyard under the family gravestone.



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