Irongray

In 1831 he erected a pillar over her grave in the old Covenanting stronghold of Irongray.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Irongray, in a romantic cemetery on the banks of the Cairn.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Dalwhairn, in the parish of Irongray; where, after the death of her father, she continued, with the unassuming piety of a Scottish peasant, to support her mother by her own unremitted labour and privations; a case so common, that even yet, I am proud to say, few of my countrywomen would shrink from the duty.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Quintin Mackell of Irongray, at the house of that singular Christian woman, Bessie Maclure, near to the place called the Howff, where Niel

Old Mortality 2004

He had never wronged her by word or deed, but riding home alone from Dumfries to Craigenputtock on the evening of her death, he says: "on getting into the quite solitary woods of Irongray, I burst into loud weeping, lifted up my voice and wept for perhaps ten or twenty minutes."

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

Irongray, Welsh's own parish, have for the most part conformed; and so it is all over the country.

Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879

There is no moorsman shot in a snow shower beside Irongray or Co'monell; there is not one of the two hundred who were drowned off the Orkneys; nor so much as

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Water, crossing which they followed the road which leads to Dumfries, until they reached the neighbourhood of Irongray.

Hunted and Harried 1859

It is said that the minister of Irongray at that time was suspected of favourable leanings toward the Covenanters, and that the proprietor of the neighbouring farm of Hallhill betrayed similar symptoms; hence the selection of the particular spot between the two places, in order to intimidate both the minister and the farmer.

Hunted and Harried 1859

"We come, honoured sir, frae Irongray, an 'we're gaun to Ed'nbury t' buy cattle," answered Quentin with downcast eyes.

Hunted and Harried 1859