Sorbie

Sorbie parish was a seventeenth-century amalgamation of Sorbie, Kirkmadrine and Cruggleton. Timothy Pont's 17th century map shows Kirck of Cruggeltown Ainslie's 1782 map shows Sorby Parish and the church by the Village of Sorbie In 1846 the parish was an area about six miles in length, and between three and a half to nearly six miles in breadth, composed of 9000 acres of which 7700 are arable with a moderate proportion of meadow and pasture, 400 woodland and plantations, and the remainder moor. Cruggleton Castle which was abandoned in the 17th century, is a few miles south of Garlieston. Sorbie Tower, one mile east of the village of Sorbie, was the seat of the Clan Hannay. There is an early…