9-620: Kirkconnell or Kirkconnel may refer to: Kirkconnel , a town in Scotland Kirkconnel railway station , a mainline railway station in Kirkconnel, Scotland Kirkconnell Correctional Centre , a prison in New South Wales, Australia Moses Kirkconnell , Caymanian politician Watson Kirkconnell (1895–1977), Canadian scholar, university administrator and translator Topics referred to by
18-599: A single street. Next to Kirkconnel is a separate village called Kelloholm . It is also associated with the ballad Helen of Kirkconnel . The early church and settlement were situated at the foot of Kirkland Hill on the drove road from Ayrshire to Lanarkshire , which followed the steep incline beside the Glenaylmer Burn. 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. A Celtic cross , erected in 1880 by
27-512: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kirkconnel Kirkconnel ( Gaelic: Cille Chonbhaill ) is a small parish in Dumfries and Galloway , southwestern Scotland . It is located on the A76 near the head of Nithsdale . Principally it has been a sporting community. The name comes from The Church of Saint Conal . In 1850 the village had only
36-570: The Duke of Buccleuch at the instigation of the minister, the Rev. John Donaldson, marks the reputed burial place of Saint Conal. From the neighborhood of the cross, on a clear day, can be seen the churches at Kirkconnel, Sanquhar and Kirkbride , all associated with Saint Conal. St Conal's Church is one of the oldest church sites in Southern Scotland with archaeological remains dating to the 9th century and
45-514: The University of Edinburgh . He was a surfaceman or platelayer on the Glasgow and South Western Railway, and generally wrote under the name of Surfaceman. On Monday to Saturdays, there are nine trains per day in each direction towards Dumfries (six of these continue to Carlisle) and Glasgow Central running on a mostly two-hourly frequency. However, there can be gaps up to four hours at certain times of
54-479: The area. Kirkconnel is served by bus routes 221 and 246. Kirkconnel is served by Kirkconnel railway station on the Glasgow South Western Line . Kirkconnel railway station Kirkconnel railway station is a railway station in the town of Kirkconnel , Dumfries and Galloway , Scotland . The station is unstaffed, owned by Network Rail and managed by ScotRail . Kirkconnel is situated on
63-475: The former Glasgow and South Western Railway main line between Kilmarnock and Carlisle . It was one of the few stations on the route to avoid the Beeching Axe in the mid-1960s and was the only intermediate station between Kilmarnock and Dumfries for many years. A plaque at the station commemorates Alexander Anderson , the poet from Kirkconnel, who rose from being a railway worker to become Chief Librarian at
72-439: The present foundations of a church dating back to the 12th and 13th centuries. Life changed dramatically for this small 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. The A76 road runs through
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