Cargenbrig is a clachan locatit in Dumfries an Gallowa , Scotland . It is soothwast o Dumfries . ^[1]

Etymologie [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

Cargenbrig taks its name fae a brig ower the Cargen Water. The name gans back tae at least 1753, whan 'Cargen bridge croft' is recordit in the Kirkcudbrightshire land tax roll. ^[2] Cargen itsel cuid be fae sundry Cumbric roots. It micht be a compund o cajr 'enclosed, defensible site' ^{[3] :49} an ane o the follaein wirds, whilk maist likely refer tae an arelier name fur Cargen Water: ^{[3] :52}

• gein[d] (from earlier can[d] ) 'white; bricht, clear' ^{[3] :58}
• geint (from arelier cant ) 'a corner, an oblique angle; march' ^{[3] :58-59}
• g?:n (from earlier c?in) 'caller'. ^{[3] :69}
• gejn (from earlier ceμ- ) 'rigg' ^{[3] :71}

On the ither haun, it micht be fae the root carreg 'a stane, a stany bit' + the suffix - an ^{[3] :64} or Gaelic carraigin 'wee stane'. ^{[3] :64 [4] :58}

Historie [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

Cargenbridge is recordit as a 'village' in 1848 in the entry fur 'Cargen Bridge Smithy' in the Ordnance Survey Name Book. ^[5] In 1962, it is recordit that the population quadrupled follaein the biggin o 36 new local authority hooses. ^{[6] :307-308}

Despite bein nar tae Dumfries , Cargenbrig steyed in Kirkcudbrightshire whan pairt o Troqueer parish wis taken intae Dumfriesshire as pairt o the jynin o the burghs o Dumfries an Maxwelltoun . The extension o the marches o the coonty o Dumfriesshire ower the River Nith didnae come as far as Cargenbrig. ^{[6] :305}

Curriestanes cursus , a muckle Neolithic biggin noo anely tae be seen as a crop merk, sits jist abuinthe clachan. ^[7] It is, alang wi Pict's Knowe , ane o twa scheduled monuments in Troqueer parish. ^[8]

Schuilin [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

The areliest schuil nar Cargenbridge was Doweel schuil, apened at the stert o the echteent century. The Rev. William Somervell (died 1698), meenister o Troqueer parish, left siller tae stert the schuil. Thon became Drumsleet, a twa-dominie schuil. Baith Drumsleet an the ane-dominie Whinnyhill schuil wir made redundant in 1959 whan Cargenbrig secondary and primary schuil apened. The biggin, described in 1962 as a "very modern school", wis apened in October by the Earl of Galloway. ^{[9] :307} It wis designed by Eric W. Hall. ^{[10] :160} The auld Drumsleet schuil became a community centre. ^{[6] :308} In 1962 the primary schuil had three dominies an 80 scholars an the secondary schuil had 14 dominies an 144 scholars. ^{[9] :307} The secondary schuil wis shut atween September 1982 and September 1984. ^[11] The current Cargenbrig Primary schuil biggin wis apened in 2009. ^{[12] :6}

Coordinates : 55°03′23″N 3°38′26″W  /  55.0563°N 3.6405°W  / 55.0563; -3.6405

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