Dunoon

Dunoon, a favourite watering-place of Argyllshire, extending, with Hunter's Quay and Kirn, 3 miles along the west shore of the Firth of Clyde, and 7 miles W. of Greenock. The seat for centuries of a castle of the Stewarts, in 1563 it received a visit from Queen Mary, and in 1643 was the place where thirty-six Lamonts were cruelly hanged by the Campbells. But the present well-built town has wholly arisen since 1822—with its new steamboat-pier (1895-98), its esplanade, its half-dozen churches, the Convalescent Homes (1869), and the statue (1896) to Burns's Highland Mary, born here. Pop. (1841) 1296; (1891) 5283—a number sometimes doubled by summer visitors.