Gairney Bridge, a farm at the NE verge of Cleish parish, Kinross-shire, on the left bank of Gairney Water, 1¾ mile SSE of Kinross. In a public house here, on the site of the farmstead stables, Ebenezer Erskine and the three other fathers of the Secession formed themselves into a presbytery, 15 Dec. 1733; and on the site of the farmhouse itself, the young poet Michael Bruce (1746-67) taught a small school in 1765-66.Ord. Sur., sh. 40,1867.
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