Rerrick, aka Dundrennan, parish

Grid reference

NX 761 466 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

276100 546600

Latitude

54.79885454102341

Longitude

-3.9275685500990845

Altitude (metres)

90

Nearby places

St Glassen's Well, Rerrick (0.22 miles)

Port Mary, port, Rerrick (0.98 miles)

Kirkcarswell, ~eccles. Rerrick (1.64 miles)

Kirkcarswell, settlement, Rerrick (1.64 miles)

St Michael's Kirk, Kirkcudbright (3.44 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Relationships with other places

Contains Kirkcarswell, ~eccles. Rerrick

Contains Kirkcarswell, settlement, Rerrick

Contains Port Mary, port, Rerrick

Contains St Glassen's Well, Rerrick

Parish details

Rerrick better known today as Auchencairn (Brooke 1994, 52).

Parish TLA

RER

County

Kirkcudbrightshire

Medieval diocese

Galloway

Parish notes

Now known as Dundrennan [but Rerrick on OS], the church was confirmed to the abbey of that name by Pope Clement VI in 1351, the union previously having been effected by the bishop of Galloway (Collectorie 14 fo.162v). Both parsonage and vicarage revenues were annexed and continued to be so at the reformation when the cure was served by a vicar pensioner (APS iv 495; RSS liv, 100v; lxvi, 197). Cowan 1967, 170. Only a small wall with round-headed, splayed window remains of the medieval fabric in what is now a cemetery by Upper Rerrick etc.. A high, exposed site by 90 m. contour.