Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Duncrub

Duncrub, an estate, with a mansion, in Dunning parish, SE Perthshire, 1 mile WNW of Dunning town. Granted to John de Rollo in 1380 by David, Earl of Strathearn, and erected in 1511 into a free barony, it now is held by John Rogerson Rollo, tenth Baron Rollo of Duncrub in the peerage of Scotland since 1651, and first Baron Dunning of Dunning and Pitcairns in that of the United Kingdom since 1869 (b. 1835; suc. 1852), who owns 10,148 acres in the shire, valued at £8419 per annum. See Dumcrieff.


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

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Feature Description: "an estate, with a mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "land parcels")
Administrative units: Dunning ScoP       Perthshire ScoCnty

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