KIRKINTILLOCH

kirkintilloch, a municipal and police burgh of dumbartonshire, scotland. pop. (1901), 10,680. it is situated 8 m. n.e. of glasgow, by the north british railway, a portion of the parish extending into lanarkshire. it lies on the forth & clyde canal, and the kelvin--from which lord kelvin, the distinguished scientist, took the title of his barony--flows past the town, where it receives from the north the glazert and from the south the luggie, commemorated by david gray. the wall of antoninus ran through the site of the town, the gaelic name of which (_caer_, a fort, not _kirk_, a church) means "the fort at the end of the ridge." the town became a burgh of barony under the comyns in 1170. the cruciform parish church with crow-stepped gables dates from 1644. the public buildings include the town-hall, with a clock tower, the temperance hall, a convalescent home, the broomhill home for incurables (largely due to miss beatrice clugston, to whom a memorial was erected in 1891), and the westermains asylum. in 1898 the burgh acquired as a private park the peel, containing traces of the roman wall, a fort, and the foundation of comyn's castle. the leading industries are chemical manufactures, iron-founding, muslin-weaving, coal mining and timber sawing. lenzie, a suburb, a mile to the south of the old town, contains the imposing towered edifice in the elizabethan style which houses the barony asylum. david gray, the poet, was born at merkland, near by, and is buried in kirkintilloch churchyard, where a monument was erected to his memory in 1865. kirk-kilisseh (kirk-kilisse or kirk-kilissia), a town of european turkey, in the vilayet of adrianople, 35 m. e. of adrianople. pop. (1905), about 16,000, of whom about half are greeks, and the remainder bulgarians, turks and jews. kirk-kilisseh is built near the headwaters of several small tributaries of the river ergene, and on the western slope of the istranja dagh. it owes its chief importance to its position at the southern outlet of the fakhi defile over these mountains, through which passes the shortest road from shumla to constantinople. the name kirk-kilisseh signifies "four churches," and the town possesses many mosques and greek churches. it has an important trade with constantinople in butter and cheese, and also exports wine, brandy, cereals and tobacco.