Talk:Glenluce

Muirkirk of Glenluce?
Hi- I found a reference to "Muirkirk of Glenluce" in Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879). Does anyone know where or what that is? -- Stbalbach 17:35, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Irrelevant material
I'm asking User:Scotire to stop trying to change the subject of this article. It was about the existing village of Glenluce. The C17th parish name changes may be relevant for a mention, but they are not the subject of the article. Neither do I understand why Dunragit, Glenjorrie, Carscreugh Castle and Glenwhan Garden are included in the article - they do not seem to be in Glenluce. Sionk (talk) 22:01, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

I've removed this section as off-topic:

Dunragit (Gaelic: Dùn Reicheit) is a village on the A75, between Stranraer and Glenluce, in the Glenluce - Old Luce Parish area, Wigtownshire.

The place-name has, not uncontroversially, been said to derive from Din Rheged meaning Fort of Rheged. This would refer to the Brythonic Dark Age kingdom of Rheged that seems to have existed somewhere in this area of the English/Scottish border between the 5th and 8th centuries. It is possible that this was one of the royal sites used by the kings of Rheged and it has been suggested as the site of the unidentified Northern Royal court Penrhyn Rhionedd, recorded in the Welsh Triads. There is a possible Roman cremation cemetery and two castle mottes in the village.

The ex-King of Dublin and Man or Mann, Echmarcach mac Ragnaill, had the title Rex Innarenn King of the Rhinns Kingdom of the Rhinns attributed to him on his death in AD1065. The western sections of Galloway had been firmly aligned with the Isle of Man, and Norse and Gaelic-Norse settlement names from the 10th and 11th centuries are spread all along the coastal lands of south-western Scotland.

Sionk (talk) 22:09, 27 September 2012 (UTC)