Bargarran, an old-fashioned mansion in Erskine parish, Renfrewshire, near the Clyde, and 2 miles E by N of Bishopton station. In 1697 it became notorious in witchcraft annals as the scene of the ` Tragedy of Bargarran's daughter, ' for which 5 persons were executed at Paisley. See Arnot's Criminal Trials (1785); vol. iii., p. 167, of Chambers' Domestic Annals (1861); and The Witches of Renfrewshire (1809; new ed. 1877).
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