Dundrennan
Dundrennan is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, about 5 miles east of Kirkcudbright. Its population is around 230. Dundrennan is located in the civil parish of Rerrick in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ed Iglehart, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Rerrick”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dundrennan Abbey.
Dundrennan Abbey
Ruins
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dundrennan Abbey, in Dundrennan, Scotland, near to Kirkcudbright, was a Cistercian monastery in the Romanesque architectural style, established in 1142 by Fergus of Galloway, King David I of Scotland, and monks from Rievaulx Abbey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kirkcudbright.
Kirkcudbright
Photo: ian freeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kirkcudbright is a coastal town in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, with a poppulation in 2020 of 3350. Farming and fishing are its main trades.
Dundrennan
- Category: locality
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.80831° or 54° 48′ 30″ northLongitude
-3.94758° or 3° 56′ 51″ westElevation
226 feet (69 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB DDNOpen location code
9C6RR352+8XOpenStreetMap ID
node 5768706092OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2650742Wikidata ID
Q5314905
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Dundrennan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Dundrennan”
- Dutch: “Dundrennan”
- French: “Dundrennan”
- German: “Dundrennan”
- Irish: “Dùn Droighnein”
- Japanese: “ダンドレナン”
- Scots: “The Aibbey”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Droighnein”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dundrennan”. Photo: Ed Iglehart, CC BY-SA 2.0.