Ecclesiamagirdle (Celt. `church of St Grizel'), a detached portion of Dron parish, SE Perthshire, lying westward of the main body, and parted therefrom by a strip of Dunbarny, 1 furlong broad at the narrowest. With utmost length and breadth of 1¾ and ¾ mile, it has an area of 631 2/3 acres; contains Glenearn House and a fragment of an ancient chapel; and is all so overshadowed by the Ochils, that, according to an old-world rhyme-
'The lasses o' Exmagirdle
May very weel be dun;
For frae Michaeimas till Whitsunday
They never see the sun.'
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