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| Kirkcudbright, town, Scotland |
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(kûrk ´br ) (KEY) , town (1991 pop. 3,406), Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, at the head of the Dee estuary. It has granaries and creameries and is a market town and artists colony. There are traces of an ancient wall and moat and of a McClellan clan castle (1582). |
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