The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Kirkcudbright, town, Scotland
(kûrk´br) (KEY) , town (1991 pop. 3,406), Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, at the head of the Dee estuary. It has granaries and creameries and is a market town and artists colony. There are traces of an ancient wall and moat and of a McClellan clan castle (1582).