Tillicoultry, a manufacturing town of Clackmannanshire, at the base of the Ochils and near the right bank of the Devon, 10 miles ENE. of Stirling and 4 NNE. of Alloa. Woollens have been manufactured here since the 16th century, and since 1824 also shawls and tartans, tweeds and silk fabrics. Pop. (1851) 3217; (1891) 3939.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 208
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