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returns of the different farmers there are 20681 imperial, acres. There are a few chalybeate springs in the parish. The chief landowners are, The Marquis of Ailsa, J F Kennedy Esq of Dunure, Sir James Ferguson Bart. [Baronet] of Kilkerran, Elias Cathcart Esq of Auchendrane, L Kennedy Esq of Drummellan, Sir D.H. Blair.
" In common with other parts of Carrick, this parish", says the statistical account, " was traversed by the Romans, "who conquered the aborigines. It was "then successively overrun by the Northumbrians, the Scots and the Irish. It was "afterwards infested by the Danes and "Norwegians, and by the English during "the struggles of Wallace and Bruce".