This section is from the book "Chambers's Concise Gazetteer Of The World", by David Patrick. Also available from Amazon: Chambers's Concise Gazetteer Of The World.
Kilmalcolm (locally Kil-ma-koam'), a Renfrewshire village,15 miles WNW. of Glasgow. Pop. 2220.
Kilmallock, a market-town, 17 miles S. of Limerick. Pop. 1029.
Kilmaurs', a town of Ayrshire, 2 1/4 miles NNW. of Kilmarnock.. Pop. 1803.
Kilmuir', a Skye hamlet, 20 miles NNW. of Portree, with Flora Macdonald's grave.
Kilmun', an Argyllshire village, on the NE. shore of the Holy Loch, 7 1/2 miles WNW. of Greenock. Pop. 447.
Kilpatrick, Old, a Dumbartonshire village near the N. bank of the Clyde, 11 1/4 miles WNW. of Glasgow. It is the traditional birthplace of St Patrick. The Kilpatrick Hills attain 1313 feet. Pop. 1533.
Kilravock (Kilrawk'), an old castellated mansion of Nairnshire, long the seat of the Roses, on the river Nairn, 7 miles SW. of Nairn town.
Kilrea, a town of Londonderry, on the Bann, 18 miles S. of Coleraine. Pop. 785.
Kilrenny, a royal burgh in the East Neuk of Fife, 1 1/2 mile NE. of Anstruther. It is one of the St Andrews parliamentary burghs. Pop. 2510.
Kilrush/, a Clare seaport and watering-place, on the N. shore of the Shannon estuary, 36 miles Wo of Limerick. Pop. 4175.
Kilsyth (Kil-sith'), a town of Stirlingshire, 13 miles NE. of Glasgow, with quarries and coal and iron mines. Founded in 1665, it was made a burgh of barony in 1826. Here, on 15th August 1645, Montrose with 4900 followers almost annihilated 7000 Covenanters. Revivals took place here in 1742 and 1839. Pop. (1851) 3949; (1901) 7292. See Anton's History of Kilsyth (1890).
Kilwa. See Quiloa.
Kilwinning, a town of Ayrshire, on the Gar-nock, 3 1/2 miles NNW. of Irvine and 26 SW. of Glasgow. The stately Tironensian abbey, founded in the 12th and demolished in the 16th century, was dedicated to Winnin, an Irish saint, who is said to have founded a church here about 715. The traditional birthplace of Freemasonry in Scotland, with a new 'mother lodge' (1893), Kilwinning was also celebrated (1488-1870) for archery; its July shooting at the popinjay, which was placed on the steeple (105 feet high), is described in Scott's Old Mortality. Eglinton Castle (1798), the seat of the Earls of Eglinton (q.v.), is l 1/2 mile SE. ; and the Eglinton Ironworks (1846) afford employment. Pop. 4450. See works by Wylie (1878) and Lee Ker (1883).
Kimbolton, a market-town of Hunts, on the Kym, 11 miles WSW. of Huntingdon. Kimbolton Castle is the seat of the Duke of Manchester. Pop. of parish, 993.
Kimmeridge, a Dorset parish, 3 1/2 miles SW. of Corfe Castle. It gives name to Kimmeridge Clay, the lowest series of the Upper Oolite.
Kim'polung, (1) a town of Wallachia, stands in a valley at the foot of the Carpathians, 80 miles NW. from Bucharest. Pop. 9090. - (2) A town in the extreme south of Bukowina. Pop. 5534.
Kinabalu. See Borneo.
Kinburn, or Kilburn, a former fort (razed 1860) of south Russia, opposite Otchakoff, on a long narrow sandbank which forms the southern boundary of the Dnieper's estuary.
 
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