Qualla: Kirkinner https://qualla.com/kirkinner en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/kirkinner-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Kirkinner https://qualla.com/kirkinner Kirkinner: Introduction https://qualla.com/kirkinner/ Photo credit Mark McKie, CC BY-SA 2.0. In a display case outside the village hall, on Kirkinner's main street, stands a four-foot stone slab carved more than a thousand years ago with a disc-headed Celtic cross. For most of its life the cross stood out in the weather beside the parish church; later it was moved inside for safety, and finally to this small glass cabinet on the A746 Whithorn road. People drive past it without noticing. They are missing the village's quietest, oldest voice, the one that links 4th-century Saint Kennera, a hermitess remembered here, to a 10th-century mason, to the modern shoppers walking by on the way to the post office.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/kirkinner-wp/gcsz-kirkinner-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kirkinner: The Hermitess and the Cross https://qualla.com/kirkinner/ Photo credit Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. The 19th-century parish church of St Kennera stands on the site of a 13th- to 14th-century foundation, and probably an even earlier monastic cell associated with Saint Kennera (also rendered Cinnera or Cannera), a 4th-century hermitess who is the village's patron saint. The churc...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/kirkinner-wp/gcsz-kirkinner-the-hermitess-and-the-cross.mp3 0:06 2 full Kirkinner: Doon Hill and the Iron Age https://qualla.com/kirkinner/ Photo credit Mark McKie, CC BY-SA 2.0. Above Capenoch Croft, west of Barnbarroch, a rocky knoll called Doon Hill carries the remains of a substantial Iron Age stone wall. The fort, which despite the name is not a dun, encloses an area roughly 34 metres north-east to south-west by 30 metres across. The four-metre-wide ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/kirkinner-wp/gcsz-kirkinner-doon-hill-and-the-iron-age.mp3 0:06 3 full Kirkinner: A Death That Gave Scott His Plot https://qualla.com/kirkinner/ Photo credit Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. Rev. Andrew Simson, minister of Kirkinner and a close friend of the Dunbar family, wrote a poem on the morning of Janet Dunbar's funeral in 1669. Janet, born Janet Dalrymple, had died strangely on the night of her wedding. The exact circumstances were the kind of small, terrible ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/kirkinner-wp/gcsz-kirkinner-a-death-that-gave-scott-his-plot.mp3 0:06 4 full Kirkinner: Wartime Runways and the Last Train https://qualla.com/kirkinner/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Goose assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. The flat carse lands along the Bladnoch River were, by the 1940s, an unlikely strategic asset. Royal Air Force Baldoon was laid down here during the Second World War, and Lane Burn was diverted to make room for the airfield. War Graves Commission headstones in Kirkinner Cemetery ...

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