Carron, a village in Stirlingshire, on the right bank of the river Carron, 2 miles NNW. of Falkirk. Its great ironworks, established in 1760, and employing 3000 men, till 1852 produced 'carronades' and other guns, and now turn out stoves, grates, boilers, pipes, &c.
Carron,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 793
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