Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dungyle

Dungyle, a green hill (600 feet) in Kelton parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, near the N base of the Screel, 3 ¼ miles S by E of Castle-Douglas. An ancient Caledonian circular hill-fort on it has three ramparts of stones ixed with earth, and measures 117 paces in diameter.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a green hill"   (ADL Feature Type: "mountains")
Administrative units: Kelton ScoP       Kirkcudbrightshire ScoCnty

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