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Parish of Rerwick [Rerrick]
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Dundrennan Abbey (Continued)----Dundrennan Abbey--Gazetteer of Scotland----above, a belt a cross the shoulder, and another round the waist, in the neighbourhood this figure is generally known by the name of The Belted Knight. There is also a tombstone, bearing the figure of an Abbot in his canonicals, in tolerable preservation, but the inscription upon it is so much decayed as to be illegible. The walls etc. of the Abbey were tastefully repaired up in 1842 from a plan by William Nixon Esqr. of her Majesty's Woods and forrests, upon the whole it exhibits one of the most beautiful specimens of Monastic Antiquity now existing in Scotland. Mr. Thomas Edgar Schoolmaster at Dundrennan, has been recently appointed Keeper of the Abbey, with an annual salary of £5. (See for further particulars in history of Galloway, the Statistical Acct. [Account] of County [etc. End of line obscured]. This Abbey is presently the property of the Crown. Dundrennan Abbey " Says Mr. McDearmid, "Like most religious houses built by the Catholics in Olden time, is beautifully situated in a Valley of the of the Same name;, whether the surrounding limited district gave to or received from the Monastery its present appellations is a point not known, but most probably from the former". The name of Queen Mary lends a charm to to Dundrennan Abbey which bids fair to defer disassociation so long as one stone of the building remains upon another to which she took recourse. After the disastrous battle of Langside."

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The following account of the foundation of this Abbey is chiefly transcribed from the Appendix to Keith's Catalogue of the Bishops etc.
"Dundrennan Abbey situtate on the Solway Firth about two miles from Kirkcudbright in Galloway was founded by Fergus Lord of Galloway in the year 1142, the Monks thereof were of the Cistertian order brought from Rievall [Rievaulx] in England, Sylvanus was the first abbot of this place. Allan Lord of Galloway was buried in this place in the year 1233. This monastery as is evident from its ruins was once a beautiful and extensive pile but is now miserably dilapidated. Hither the unfortunate Queen Mary was escorted from Terreagles by the Lord Herries and from hence she is said to have set out for England.
Grose's Antiquities Vol [Volume] 2 pages 182 and 183.

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Dundrennan Abbey--Gazetteer of Scotland

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Statistical Acct. [Account] of County [?]