Kirriemuir, a small Forfarshire town, 5 m. NW. of Forfar, native place of J. M. Barrie, and the “Thrums” of his books; manufactures brown linens.
Population (circa 1900) given as 4,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kirkwall * Kirschwasser