{"id":271,"date":"2017-03-06T21:39:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T21:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/?page_id=271"},"modified":"2017-06-21T15:32:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:32:42","slug":"the-parish-of-dallas-and-its-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/dallas-area\/the-parish-of-dallas-and-its-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parish Of Dallas And Its History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much of the information on this site has been taken from various sources such as:-<\/p>\n

The Lossie by Dr Robert Douglas<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Parish of Dallas, also by Dr Robert Douglas<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Survey of the Province of Moray printed for Isaac Forsyth, Bookseller, Elgin in 1798<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Documents Relating to the Province of Moray, published in 1895 by David Douglas, Edinburgh.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Statistical Account of Elginshire published in 1842 by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Moray Floods by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder<\/strong><\/p>\n

Place Names of Elginshire by D Matheson<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Notes written by Albert Strachan, reporter on the Elgin Courant weekly newspaper<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

There have been a great many changes over the years in names and their spelling.\u00a0 For example, Kellas has been known or written as Kelleys, Killess or Killas.\u00a0 Dallas has been Doleys, Dolais, Doles, Dollace and Dollas.\u00a0 For ease of reading, the current names have been used throughout and, where known, other words have been changed to their modern equivalent.\u00a0 These notes are therefore designed only to be a broad aid to anyone wishing to know more of Dallas and its history.<\/p>\n

In taking information from the above published documents there are inevitably differences in detail, dates, etc.\u00a0 Assumptions have been made in a number of cases and, undoubtedly, these will not all be accurate.<\/p>\n

Parish of Dallas<\/strong><\/p>\n

It should be appreciated that the Parish of Dallas is entirely different from the Estate of Dallas.\u00a0 The Parish also contains the estates of Kellas and Craigmill.<\/p>\n

The Parish has not always been its current shape and size.\u00a0 According to the Statistical Account of Scotland 1791 to 1799 the parish was 12 miles from east to west and 9 miles from north to south.\u00a0 The bounds given for the parish were the Parishes of Rothes, Birnie, Elgin, Rafford, Edinkillie and Cromdale.\u00a0 However, we know that the bounds have changed over the centuries.\u00a0 In the Ordinance Survey map of 1924 the parish of Cromdale had been replaced by Knockando.<\/p>\n

The above Statistical Account also stated that the hills were covered with heather and the soil was black and mossy except for some fields along the banks of the Lossie. These fields were very subject to flooding from the river, with sand and gravel spoiling the crops and grass in the summer.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Estates of the Parish of Dallas<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>As outlined above the Parish of Dallas is made up of the estates of Craigmill, Dallas and Kellas.\u00a0 The main properties of these are Dallas Lodge and Kellas House:-<\/p>\n

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Dallas Lodge \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2004<\/em><\/p>\n

Dallas Lodge is a modern name and is not found in older records.\u00a0 Its earlier name was \u2018Rhininver House\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Views Around the Parish<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/h3>\n

Waterfalls<\/span><\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The two main waterfalls in the parish are those at Torwinnie and Auchness.\u00a0\u00a0 Whilst salmon and seatrout can navigate the falls at Torwinnie on their way to their spawning grounds, those at Auchness are totally impassable.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/b>Torwinnie Falls<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>2004<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/i>\"\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Auchness Falls<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>2004<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

In addition to the above, there are a number of smaller falls in the parish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much of the information on this site has been taken from various sources such as:- The Lossie by Dr Robert Douglas The Parish of Dallas, also by Dr Robert Douglas\u00a0 A Survey of the Province of Moray printed for Isaac Forsyth, Bookseller, Elgin in 1798\u00a0 Documents Relating to the Province of Moray, published in 1895 … Continue reading The Parish Of Dallas And Its History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6810,"featured_media":0,"parent":262,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-271","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions\/428"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}