Tynron Doon to the left and Clonrae Farm below - geograph

Tynron is a village and

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located in

Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway (; ) is one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland, located in the western part of the Southern Uplands. It is bordered by East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and South Lanarkshire to the north; Scottish Borders to the no ...

, in south-west Scotland. It lies in a hollow along the Shinnel Water, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from the village of Moniaive. The area is notable for Tynron Doon, the site of a Roman Iron Age

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, where remnants of ditches and ramparts are still visible. The name ''Tynron'' is believed to derive from the

Cumbric Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the ''Hen Ogledd'' or "Old North", in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands. It was closely related to Old Welsh and the ot ...

elements ''din rhón'', meaning "lance-fort".

Notable people

* James Shaw, Schoolmaster and Writer * Rev Prof James Williamson (1725–1795) mathematician, joint founder of the

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References

External links

Tynron Glen by John Shaw

Tynron ParishJohn Penman of Shinnel Mill and Glenairlie Mill
Villages in Dumfries and Galloway Parishes in Dumfries and Galloway {{DumfriesGalloway-geo-stub