Eagerness or Eggerness (' Edgar's ness '), a headland of Sorbie parish, E Wigtownshire, flanking the N side of Garliestown Bay, 6¾ miles SE by S of Wigtown. Projecting ¾ mile from the mainland, and contracting from a width of 7½ furlongs to a point, it rises to a height of 100 feet, and presents a rocky though not precipitous face to the sea. On its eastern side stood Eggerness Castle, whose scanty ruin is so overgrown with brushwood and rank vegetation as to be hardly discernible. Its date and history are alike unknown.Ord. Sur., sh. 4, 1857.
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