Doune

Doune, a village of Perthshire, on the Teith, 9 miles NW. of Stirling by rail. Pop. 946. Doune Castle, built by Murdoch, Duke of Albany, in the early part of the 15th century, is now a magnificent and well-preserved ruin. It is described in Scott's Waverley, and was reduced to ruins by Hawley's dragoons in 1746. A mile to the west is Deanston, with its cotton-mills, long managed by James Smith (1789-1850), notable as an inventor, as the promoter of 'deep draining and thorough ploughing,' and as a philanthropist.