Keir is a civil parish, containing the small village of Keir Mill, in

Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway ( sco, Dumfries an Gallowa; gd, Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghaidhealaibh) is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland and is located in the western Southern Uplands. It covers the counties of Scotland, historic counties of ...

, Scotland, one mile south of Penpont. It was founded in the late eighteenth century.

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The village was the birthplace of Kirkpatrick Macmillan, the inventor of the

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. A plaque on his home, Courthill Smithy, commemorates this. He is buried in the parish church. The church itself is in the Gothic style, of Capenoch

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, and was built from 1813 to 1815 by architect William Burn. In 1880 a vestry was added by James Barbour. The other notable building in the village is the Mill, built in 1771.

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Villages in Dumfries and Galloway Dumfriesshire Parishes in Dumfries and Galloway {{DumfriesGalloway-geo-stub

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