Stranraer, a royal burgh and seaport of Wigtownshire, finely situated at the southern extremity of Loch Ryan, 73 m. W. of Dumfries; has an interesting 16th-century castle, and a handsome town-hall and court-house; there is some shipping in agricultural produce, and steamers ply daily between Stranraer and Larne, in Ireland.
Population (circa 1900) given as 6,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Strangford, Percy E. F. W. Smythe * Straparola, Giovanni Francesco