Qualla: Wigtownshire https://qualla.com/wigtownshire en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Wigtownshire https://qualla.com/wigtownshire Wigtownshire: Introduction https://qualla.com/wigtownshire/ Locals call it the Shire. The county next door is the Stewartry. The shorthand goes back six and a half centuries, to the day in 1369 when Archibald the Grim - Earl of Douglas, hard man of the wars with England - was handed the eastern half of Galloway and appointed a steward to administer it. The western half stayed with the king's sheriff, and so became known as the Shire of Wigtown. The two names stuck. Wigtownshire occupies the western end of Scotland's southwest corner, an oddly shaped county with a hammer-headed peninsula at one end and a triangular peninsula at the other, two enormous bays cutting between them, and on a clear day, three other countries visible from its higher ground.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/x/wigtownshire-wp/gcsx-wigtownshire-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wigtownshire: The King of the Rhinns https://qualla.com/wigtownshire/ The deep history of Wigtownshire runs sideways across the Irish Sea more than it runs east into Scotland. In 1065, when an exiled king named Echmarcach mac Ragnaill died, he carried the title Rex Innarenn - King of the Rhinns - on his death notice. He had previously ruled Dublin ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/x/wigtownshire-wp/gcsx-wigtownshire-three-coasts-and-a-stone-henge.mp3 0:06 3 full Wigtownshire: A Lunula in a Field https://qualla.com/wigtownshire/ In March 2011, a metal detectorist walking a cultivated field near Garlieston, in Sorbie parish, turned up something unexpected: a gold lunula. These crescent-shaped neck ornaments date to around 2300 to 2200 BC and are thought to have been symbols of power. It was the first Scot...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/x/wigtownshire-wp/gcsx-wigtownshire-a-lunula-in-a-field.mp3 0:06 4 full Wigtownshire: Councils, Cuts, and Carriers https://qualla.com/wigtownshire/ Modern Wigtownshire has had a complicated administrative life. Elected county councils were established in Scotland in 1890, and Wigtownshire County Council first met at Wigtown County Buildings on 22 May 1890. Annual meetings stayed at Wigtown by tradition, but ordinary meetings...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/x/wigtownshire-wp/gcsx-wigtownshire-councils-cuts-and-carriers.mp3 0:06 5 full Wigtownshire: Sons and Daughters of the Shire https://qualla.com/wigtownshire/ The county has produced a varied roll of notable people. Gavin Maxwell, born at the House of Elrig in 1914 and dying in 1969, wrote Ring of Bright Water and shaped a generation's relationship with British wildlife. His grandfather Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet, was a novelist,...

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